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This is a "depth education" exercise to re-imagine education in 2048 after reflecting on catastrophic events happening from 2018 to 2048. We can't imagine something genuinely different in the future without learning from the humanity's wrongs that have brought us to the current situation. The exerc

"Imagine you wake up in a future where the great social-ecological transformation has succeeded, democracy is flourishing, peace and prosperity prevail, the economy is oriented toward the common good, and the climate crisis has been averted successfully. How would this new world look like? Utopia 2

Three Global 2050 Work/Technology Scenario. Each about 10 pages of rich detail with cause and effect links and decisions: Scenario 1: It’s Complicated – A Mixed Bag. A business-as-usual trend projection of the increasing acceleration of change with both intelligence and stupidity characterizing dec

Hi everyone! I'd like to share this insightful talk by Leah Zaidi on #worldbuilding and futures design. It pretty much revolves around the somewhat limited and dated concept of #solarpunk but it's still really nice to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnYXaScAHYs

So what would a world of free energy for all look like? Electricity would become ubiquitous in the many parts of the world where that’s not yet the case. In other places, electric bills would disappear—but that would be the least of it. Manufacturing costs would plummet, as would transportation cost

A teacher living in 2050 looking back to his own childhood through the eyes of his kids. Key Insights: It's a struggle, being born with a human brain, but we'll emerge eventually. Seeing it's not about the short term or economics, but about living together in a peaceful and healthy place.

(in french) this texte considers 3 paths for the future of local food chains : financialised localism ; convivial transition ; food despite everything #food, #prospective #Food & #Agriculture, #Society, #Behaviour

The artwork shows how Berlin Friedrichstraße could look like in a utopian future https://www.utopia2048.com/ #Politics, #Economy, #Food & #Agriculture, #SustainableMobility, #Society, #Environment, #Culture

This scenario is based on the recognition that the development of new technologies – although relevant – turns out to be insufficient to resolve the issue of resource scarcity alone. Important behavioral changes are also needed. In the New Welfare scenario, GDP as a measure of growth becomes obsolet

Collecting data on happiness can serve a number of purposes, including helping governments to design better public policies. With the help of emotion recognition technology (i.e. gesture recognition, brain scanning, other biometrics) data collected can become much more credible. What would change in

"The world will be our classroom" is how a group of young leaders in informal education describe the education 2050. Less linear, less centered in physical spaces, more distributed, more skills-based and more project-based education is part of their vision. The progress in AI and XR may boost this l

"In August 2020 I was invited to present a paper on the topic of what schools could look like in 2048. This was for a conference in Germany on utopian visions. Since education is much broader than schooling, I found that it was problematic to assume that education in 2048 would still happen through

The company Bio Bound produces circular concrete. When the company creates new concrete it adds grass. The addition of grass to concrete contributes to less pollution in several ways. The addition of grass to concrete contributes to less pollution in several ways. Because less reinforcement steel i

The current economic model is obsolete and has no capacity to solve the global issues we face. In this system, the existing vast potentials in the area of sustainability, efficiency, and, by extension, equality that lie at our fingertips cannot be fully harvested. We therefore need a new economic mo

Possible futures from the intersection of nature, tech and society | Natsai Audrey Chieza TED Talks Daily Biodesigner Natsai Audrey Chieza prototypes the future, imagining a world where people and nature can thrive together. In this wildly imaginative talk, she shares the vision behind her innovati

I was looking through the sections of the project and could find nothing about the ethics of the future. Every time I hear about sustainability, I wonder why there is no talk about the sustainability of human good actions or moral deeds.

"The world of work in 2050. If you’re unlucky enough not to have retired by then, the working world will be a very different place to how it is today. The vision of the future for workers tends to scale from a nihilistic view of the robots taking our jobs (leaving us permanently trapped indoors,