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 [...]
Branding is the revenge of the losers
By Morten Grønborg
Branding is the lazy, incompetent manufacturers’ revenge upon those more capable. Their brilliant move was to shift the field of battle from the real to something secondary. That is why we now compete on words and symbols rather than on substance. Read about why branding is wasted money, wrapped in promises of progress.
The idea of [...]
Empathy is the new weapon
Appetiser By Suzette Frovin
If you want to win a war, you must know your enemy as well as your neighbour. This is why American soldiers now get help from anthropologists to understand the culture in the countries they are sent to. American professor James Der Derain examines what this means for the war, the soldiers [...]
G2 in a dead end
“The people of both USA and China see their governments, the two most powerful in the world, in desperate nonstop action and desperate paralysis respectively, allocating their resources in ways that create no real value for humanity.” Janet Carmosky is an American who has lived and done business in China f or a long time. Here, she presents [...]
Future capitalism
By Johan Peter Paludan
The explanations for the financial crisis are many, and the queue at the washstand is long. Still, let us not dwell on the past; it is much more meaningful to focus on future capitalism. For that, I see three scenarios.
The first scenario is that the capitalist system keeps eroding, and that is [...]
What’s up Google, New York?
Interview by Thomas Geuken
With its search engine, Google, Inc. has revolutionised the way we look for and organise data. But this story isn’t over yet. SCENARIO visited the Google’s beta lab in New York to get a sneak peek of coming breakthroughs from the company. Read about how you will one day be able to speak [...]
