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CONCERNING ’THE DANISH GIRL’

Article (appetiser) by Morten Grønborg.
A coming international film tells the story of the first sex change operation in the world, which was performed on a Danish man in 1930. Since then, gender reassignment surgery has become quite common, and a number of transgender people even put their transformation process up on YouTube for everyone to see. SCENARIO is extrapolating [...]

How will the world look in 50 years?

Take a minute to look at this short video about one of the articles from SCENARIO 03:2010, the reportage “Feedback from Baden-Baden”.

Stop Feeding Us

ProjectVRM at Harvard University works on liberating people from their roles as mere passive consumers. This bodes new tidings for companies that continue to think they can dominate the marketplace and control their customers…

The First Human Being

He didn’t fit in as a young man, and he himself says that he was one of the “also rans” at school. Today, however, he is one of the leading international researchers in Denmark.

Future… housing bubbles

We now know that housing bubbles – and more general asset bubbles – developed in many countries in the early years of the new millennium. House prices plummeted in the wake of the sub-prime crises that started in 2008, and the question today is: does that mark the end of the crisis?

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