The versions of the future in popular culture are bleak. It often looks like a gloomy, always raining, version of Hong Kong with staggering inequality and humanities in decline; or like a lifeless post-apocalyptic deserted version of our beautiful planet.
To increase odds of a better future for everyone we are inviting you to imagine it. How does a positive, inclusive, exciting future look like? Not a simplistic, but a serious, believable, compelling, mind-blowing good future. What is the vision worth working hard for?
If we learn anything working on innovative products, is that you have to have the vision to deliver a good product. I guess we have to have a vision for the future if we want to have a good one.
A lot happened at the intersection of Design and Tech in the last few decades. We got connected, we got social, we got addicted to and confused by our new tools. Big ideas from Xerox Park, Stanford Institute, MIT developed in the 60s shaped what we called tech today. What is next?
What will be a mother of all demos 50 years from now?