The Future Project is an interview series from LOLA Clips documenting how people see the world today—and how they imagine tomorrow. Through honest conversations and cultural reflection, it creates a lasting record of the ideas, concerns, and hopes shaping our time. Here's Hugo from Bristol aged 19: "So, tell me your name, where you're from, and your age. Hugo Sylvester, Bristol, 19. Thank you. Right. And then when you look at me, um, so when, tell me a little about who you are and what matters to you most in life right now. Matters to me. Um, I'm a uni student. Uh, what about, what, what about me? Yeah, just a little bit about what you do and then what matters to you? What do you care about? Uh, I'm a uni student, studying ancient history, uh. I'm young and what matters to me. I would say what matters to me. Oh my Lord, that's pretty heavy, um, what matters to me. Not much. I really honestly, nothing really matters to me. Nothing, nothing, nothing. What do you, what do you spend most of your time doing? Um, I play a lot of video games, uh, I go out and occasionally I do something other than those two. Right. And then when you think about the future, what are the biggest concerns you worry about for yourself, your friends, and obviously the planet? AI taking jobs, I think. The planet. I don't worry about it as much as most people. Um, W I worry, uh. I think there probably will be another big war sometime, definitely how things are going. That's probably the big picture worries and then like smaller picture like house prices and stuff like that. OK, um, and then. If you imagine the world in 50 years from now, when you're 69, um, what does it look like? What's changed, what's the same? Just imagine where you, how do you imagine that? Yeah, yeah. Either totally modern in a sense that it's all worked, AI's perfection, um, we've worked out clean energy, um. You know, people are a bit like Wally, where they, where they're all, you know, doing nothing because it's all being done for them, but it works or totally goes wrong. Totally nuclear destruction, to be honest with you. But I think I'd more lean towards the left because I feel like they would figure it out before that happened. OK. Brilliant. Um. And then last question, which is a, this is quite a tough one. OK. I struggle with what matters. That's OK, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine. There's no right or wrong. So what message or piece of advice would you give to someone living 50 years from now, so in the future, to hear from you today? So what would you like, say what advice would I give someone in 50 years? Yeah. What Jesus. Well, what advice would you give to yourself um. Um Hope we started worrying about our health at some point, which I'd say is a sort of funny one, and then a sort of serious one I'd be. What advice would I give myself? I'd say, bit cliche, but I'd say like I wouldn't, don't settle for something, that'd be my advice. But does someone in, what what are we looking for here? What are we just, just yeah, I go with that. Don't don't settle. Yeah, that's a nice one. Yeah, I could quote that one, yeah, I like that. Jobs are good yeah there we go. That's quite fun."