What the world will look like in 2050

The majority of Britons no longer think the monarchy will be abolished by 2050

Thursday 14 April 2016 09:15 BST

The majority of Britons now think extraterrestrial life will be discovered by 2050 — The majority of Britons now think extraterrestrial life will be discovered by 2050 (iStock)

Over the last six years, people in Britain have become more certain of the monarchy's future and also more certain we will find evidence of life elsewhere in the universe.

Since 2010, YouGov has asked Britons 26 questions each year about what they thought the world would look like by 2050.

In 2010, most British people thought the monarchy would be abolished in the next 40 years. They also thought humanity had no chance of finding extra-terrestrial life.

Over the last six years, those opinions have been reversed. While 52 per cent of people in 2010 said the British Monarchy would be abolished by 2050, only 16 per cent believed the same in 2016.

Britons are now much more optimistic about discovering alien life, with 43 per cent thinking it will happen by 2050 compared to 12 per cent in 2010.

Famous people who believe in aliens

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Famous people who believe in aliens

Tom Cruise

Scientologist Tom Cruise believes that alien souls live in human bodies.

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Famous people who believe in aliens

William Shatner

Star Trek's Captain Kirk says: "There is no doubt that there is life out there; the mathematics of it lead you to that absolute conclusion. In my mind, there is no doubt that the universe teems — teems! — with life in all its forms."

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Famous people who believe in aliens

Tom DeLonge

The Blink-182 guitarist believes there's a government cover-up and says he's had his phone tapped trying to expose that aliens exist

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Famous people who believe in aliens

Robbie Williams

The singer claims he has been visited by aliens

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Famous people who believe in aliens

Dan Ayckroyd

Believes that aliens visit Earth frequently because: "this is the planet that produced Picasso, the atom bomb, penicillin... They [the aliens] didn't paint like Renoir, they don't dance like Mick Jagger"

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Famous people who believe in aliens

Demi Lovato

Lovato believes that mermaids are aliens and said: "I know that they are real. How self-centered would we be, as humans, to believe that we are the only living things in the universe?”

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Famous people who believe in aliens

Halle Berry

“I don’t believe we are the only species in existence,” she argues

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Famous people who believe in aliens

Will Smith

The Independence Day and Men In Black actor says: "Any assertion is just as absurd as the other. It'd be just as ridiculous to say that there aren't [aliens] as it would to say that there are. I have a very open mind."

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Famous people who believe in aliens

Jaden Smith

The well-connected son of Will Smith said: "I talked to President Obama about extraterrestrials. He said he could neither confirm nor deny the existence of aliens, which means they're real. If people think we're the only people that live in this universe, then something is wrong with them."

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Famous people who believe in aliens

Zooey Deschanel

"I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me," the New Girl actress says. "I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion Of The Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it."

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Famous people who believe in aliens

Katy Perry

The singer says: "I see everything from a spiritual lens. I believe in a lot of astrology. I believe in aliens."

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Famous people who believe in aliens

Ariana Grande

"We’d be so stupid to believe we are the only people here," the singer argues

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Famous people who believe in aliens

Megan Fox

The Transformers actress believes in aliens "1000%"

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Famous people who believe in aliens

Olivia Newton-John

“In England most people now think UFOs are possible. Twenty years ago, how many people would have thought that?” Newton-John believes she saw a UFO as a child

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Famous people who believe in aliens

Keanu Reeves

“Sure I believe in other forms of life. How can it be possible that we are the only living, sentient beings in the universe? I don’t know if we will get to them in our lifetimes, but in my view, it is inconceivable we are the only ones,” he argues

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Famous people who believe in aliens

Alicia Keys

The singer says: "I think they're here now… Yeah, I’ve met some serious aliens in my life, for sure. I’m sure you’ve seen a UFO. Haven’t all of us seen something flying in the sky, and it’s at some random time of night that doesn’t make sense, and it’s not the shape of a plane?"

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Another reversal was seen in the belief that all TV would be watched in 3D. In 2010, 65 per cent believed the future of television was three-dimensional, whereas 41 per cent think the same now.

People were also slightly more likely to believe: astronauts will land on Mars, there will be another world war and paper editions of newspapers will no longer exist.

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