Liquid democracy: what will the pirates do with their influence?
Appetiser by Henrik Moltke
It all started with a bunch of loosely coordinated internet activists in conflict with the law. Their common ground was a love of computers and a hatred of the entertainment industry’s lawyers. Their critics called them pirates because they shared files illegally, but they adopted the epithet, grew more powerful, and formed [...]
FoMO
By Morten Grønborg
Government leaders in western democracies work to give their citizens the greatest possible freedom of choice. The more choices we have, the more freedom we get, and the happier we become. This is the philosophy and idea on which our nations are founded.
Here at SCENARIO we are in favour of freedom of choice. [...]
HOOKED ON HALLYU
South Korea is on the move, both economically and culturally. Most recently, the nation’s pop culture, k-pop, has conquered most of Asia and is now moving into Europe. This success has been created as a result of a meticulously planned national effort in commercial cultural industry – inspired by Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, which opened [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
