We’ve not done this for a while, but here are some interesting bits from our scanning that caught the eye of FA futurists today. In Sweden, the new ReTuna Återbruksgalleria shopping mall sells only recycled or upcycled goods. Connecting consumers more directly to the recycling/upcycling process could be a way to make the idea of…
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Writing at A Fistful of Euros, Edward Hugh suggests that some countries may die demographically, losing population so severely that they are no longer sustainable as politico-economic entities: It leads me personally to ask the question whether it is not possible that some countries will actually die, in the sense of becoming totally unsustainable, and…
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Here are five indicators, observations or articles that caught the eye of FA futurists today. In a new paper in Science, researchers report that they have succeeded in creating a persistent bacterial infection in a strain of mosquitoes that transmit malaria. Scientists have long hoped that by infecting mosquitoes with certain bacteria they could stop them…
DetailsHere are five indicators, observations or articles that caught the eye of FA futurists today. The goal of the Digital Olfaction Society, which just held its first world congress, is to “digitize, transmit, reproduce and recapture smells, flavors and fragrances.” The Society’s founder imagines a “digiscented” future world in which smells are digitally detected and transmitted.…
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