Posts Tagged ‘Future’

I’ve always had this special interest, a fetish one might say, about yesterday’s tomorrow. Those daredevilish visions, hopes and ideas about how the future might be like. I both find it extremely entertaining, fascinating and educational to get a glimpse of how we have imagined our future during the last century. I’ve even had the [...]

Well, I’m afraid the answer doesn’t come that easy – and certainly not here. However, last Sunday Anders and I did a presentation on the topic at the Danish International Media Festival – the largest in Scandinavia with more than 1500 participants.
It’s a pretty thankless job to come up with fluffy predictions, which is why [...]

Well, you might think that the e-ink cover clad magazine Esquire is publishing next month was radical innovation enough for a long time in the publishing industry… Apparently not. Two very interesting pieces of news (or rather signposts) I predict will cause quite a stir in the publishing business, just popped up in my feed [...]

Anyone who has watched Harry Potter movies has seen The Daily Prophet – the newspaper that keeps everyone updated on what’s going on in the wizarding world. What’s really intriguing about the Daily Prophet is the moving images, literally updated by the second.
Well, let’s cut from magic to reality because that vision is now to [...]

It’s a bit like starting the family reunion dinner toast with the words “I am not a great speaker…”. Well, perhaps not, but everybody around the table know what to expect for the next 20 minutes – at least. A popular entry remark among a good deal of mediocre futurists is: ”It is difficult to [...]

This morning I got up before the crack of dawn, when even the roosters were still deep in REM sleep. “Go’ Morgen P3″ – an entertaining morning show on the Danish National Radio. The hosts on the radio show had read The Economist’s trendpick for 2008, which says sleep is the new sex. And [...]