Monthly: November, 2011
EDITORIAL
By editor-in-chief Morten Grønborg
In this double issue of our magazine, the artist Goodiepal points to something crucial about Western society. Born, as we have been, in the right place on earth in the best of all times, we have never had more surplus – but never have there been so few original thoughts as today. [...]
URBEX
Af Maria Mackinney-Valentin
An abandoned hospital. A forgotten missile silo. A vacated apartment. Regardless of the physical destination, the driving force behind Urban Exploring – or urbex – is the same: exploring that which is forgotten, worn down or hidden. It is a celebration of decay and everyday poetry, with a touch of melancholia and a [...]
Technology against closed, despotic regimes
By Natasha Friis Saxberg
Egypt is no longer boiling, but the country’s future is still uncertain. Hosni Mubarak ruled the country for 29 years without a single honest, democratic election. However, he also created growth and stability. How do young Egyptians view the future now that they must shape it themselves? We met some of [...]
Future nonsense
By Signe Dahl Lumholt
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing” (ancient Greek parable)
In the 1950s (and again in 1968) the biologist Paul Ehrlich predicted that the world was facing population growth that would lead to widespread famine. Today – an obesity epidemic later – he has graciously conceded that his prediction [...]
Editors’ picks 2011
Read or re-read:
Democracy of the future – nothing less by Stefan Hansen
And our interview with Lone Frank in the award-winning SCENARIO 01:2o11
Or the interview from SCENARIO 04:2011 with web-entrepreneur and investor Lane Becker
EU towards 2022 – Tired or Wired by futurist Niels Bøttger
Or futurist Klaus Æ. Mogensen’s article Darwin as the designer
CounterCultures of the future
By Klaus Æ. Mogensen and Katrine K. Pedersen
The countercultures of the future are already being born and are parts of the future’s new markets. It can therefore be an advantage to know what to expect from them. They stand up against greed and religion, burst the boundaries of biology, and expand the idea of anarconomy still further. We [...]
Future woman
By Mette Skovbjerg
We see them everywhere. In the best-paid jobs. In the highest positions in society. Women who people listen to. Women with a mandate. Women with power. Power women. Women like Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton, Sonia Gandhi, Christine Lagarde (Managing Director, IMF) and Indra Noori (CEO PepsiCo).
It is no longer any big surprise that [...]
