Monthly: February, 2012
Lawyers, guns, and money: what terrorists can teach us about navigating the blurred lines of the future global economy
Appetiser by Timothy Wittig
“Send lawyers, guns, and money. The shit has hit the fan” – Warren Zevon
Terrorists are also businessmen, but not particularly good ones. Even so, they know how to navigate the realities of the global economy better than most Western business and political leaders. Being a ‘terrorist’ today is to be the ultimate [...]
Trends: Future Food
We can look forward to radical changes in food over the next 10 years, and in this article we focus on the overarching trends that drive developments towards 2022. What will we eat? How will we eat it? And will food even be food as we know it today?
Appetiser by Martin Kruse
The field of [...]
EDITORIAL, SCENARIO 03:2012
Piracy of intellectual property was also part of reality back when the world was analogue rather than digital. There’s a direct line from the piracy of sheet music in the early 20th century to present-day file sharing on the internet, as described by Jan Drejer Petersen on the last pages of this issue. However, while [...]
Goodbye to the global information society
By Anders Colding-Jørgensen
Facebook has abolished our online anonymity, so now the internet is no longer primarily about information – it’s about identity. We should no longer see the internet as a post office where information is sent back and forth, but rather than as an open arena for our identity and self-promotion – an [...]
”All the opportunities we thought we were born with disappeared at a stroke”
The labour market welcomed Generation Y with fanfare, champagne, and adulation, but they quickly got the rug pulled out from beneath them by the global financial crisis. That’s why the old line about this generation is outdated, argues the youngest member of SCENARIO’s GenY panel, 18-year-old Aqbal Amiri in this portrait of his generation. He [...]
