Behemoth skyscrapers built into the ground, under-water cities and the colonisation of other planets are all likely to become realities in the next 100 years.

That’s according to Samsung’s Smart Things Future Living Report, which paints a vivid picture of our future lives and suggests how the way we live, work and holiday will change over the course of the next century.

“Over the next century we will witness further seismic shifts in the way we live and interact with our surroundings – working on The SmartThings Future Living Report with a panel of industry experts, has allowed me to explore what these could be,” said co-author of the report, Maggie Aderin-Pocock.

“We are likely to see the emergence of towering megastructures as well as sub-aquatic cities and transportation via advanced flying drones – some of which could be strong enough to transport entire houses on holiday.”

Many of the predictions, made by the report, are influenced by growing populations and the need to develop structures that are better able to cope with space constraints and diminishing resources.

The report was authored by a team of leading academics including space scientists, futurist architects, lecturers and city planners.

They concluded that as city space becomes squeezed, we will burrow deeper and build higher. Our cities will also be transformed by flying drones replacing cars.

But bigger than that, what we think of as a city might change altogether with the construction of underwater cities that use water to create breathable atmospheres and by the colonisation of other planets.

The report’s authors believe we will colonise the Moon first, before we explore Mars and other far-flung galaxies.

As well as looking at how cities will develop the report also documents how the world of work will change.

Predictions include a three-day working week, the widespread use of holograms, that allow staff to attend meetings from anywhere in the world, and home medical pods that confirm if you’re really ill or just faking it – in the event that your illness is real they’ll supply medicine or a remote physician.

The full SmartThings Future Living Report is available to read and download from Samsung.com.