If you look to the horizon you will see hints of what is to come. It is already here, you just need to be able to find it and then have the awareness to know what you are seeing in front of you.
William Gibson’s words keep replaying in my mind, when he said: “The future is already here – it is just unevenly distributed.” As a collective we spend a lot of time thinking about the future, about what’s next. We make guesses about what is coming and what it will look like – but with the realisation that it is already here, we can go to the edges and we can find it.
What interesting ideas have you seen on the edges lately? Here are a few interesting things:
- Accessible space flight with Virgin Galactic
- 1000 year old humans with Aubrey De Grey
- Severe information overload, on social networks
- Mobile phones as augmented reality portals
- Spending vast amounts of time in virtual worlds
- Minimalism as a way to transcend consumption habits
- Games as tools to solve humanities problems
- The internet enabling nomadic lifestyles
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
- Andre Gide
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