Two weeks ago we held an event to bring together a brilliant group of creative and inspiring people to think about the future. But more than just *think* about the future, the group was tasked with looking for ways to help represent the future – to create ideas and representations that would help other people to think about the future more critically.
In Kevin Kelly’s piece The Missing Near Future I was struck by this passage:
As an audience we can believe an alien present. It’s like today, only more so. Maybe an alternative version of today. We can also easily be persuaded to believe in a far future. We feel sure that someday, somehow they’ll have massive [...]
Am sure you’ve all seen Million Futures – you remember, virtual paper planes, your wishes for the future… Very pretty, if you haven’t seen it take a look. Anyway, in addition to being inspirational and fun there is a purpose. As it says, the responses on the planes contribute to the report we’re compiling of [...]
