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WHAT is a trend? “A trend describes a deep social and cultural movement forward for at least a decade out. “It cuts across multiple realms of the consumer’s life and a wide swath of societies and marketplaces. It expresses primal human needs and aspirations and predicts what their needs will…
The Atlantic Our pandemic cocoons are breaking open, and some of us might miss them. Jean Gaumy / Magnum I’ve spent the pandemic taking daily walks around my neighborhood, along what are now overly familiar blocks. I try to vary my route, but I can tell you which patches of sidewalk are most treacherous, which houses have the most stylish doors, and where the yippiest dogs reside. Last week, a text interrupted this routine, with a link to schedule my first vaccination appointment. For a second, I thought it was spam. But I stopped, and clicked, and very shortly had snagged an appointment, f...
‘We are now at a place of kindness in the world’- Faith Popcorn Hein Kaiser Man showing kindness to his elderly father. Picture: iStock “Kindness is not simply being naïve to one another, but it has far-reaching socio-political and economic reach and takes many shapes” says futurist and author Faith Popcorn. ‘Double double toil and trouble, Fire burn and cauldron bubble...
Link Copied The pandemic, which has seemed stranger than science fiction in so many ways, has occasioned much debate about the role of speculative fiction in imagining the future: The possibilities of such stories have felt, to some, like answers amid uncertainty, even as others have questioned the limits of dystopian visions. But perhaps an equally relevant literature to revisit is speculative nonfiction: the constantly evolving genre we might call “pop futurism.” What are the telltale signs of a “pop futurist” book? It sketches out possible tomorrows, highlights emergent trends to ...