Share As a futurist working for engineering consultancy Aurecon, Noriko Wynn spends her days thinking about everything from construction techniques and building design to the future of cities and what Australia’s response to the coronavirus pandemic tells us about the nation’s preparedness to embrace change. “I look at economic, social, political and technological changes,” Wynn says. “Those things tend to interact.” If you think the genomic testing of buildings, the use of moss to determine air quality and office towers where the mail room is on the top floor sound fanciful, think again. Here are some of Wynn’s predictions for the future.