With regards to the design futures course, Arthur C Clarke's recent death
makes it all the more important to study his work:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2358011.stm
Also those of William Gibson:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson
Writers such as these have accurately (to date) depicted the futures in
which designers will work, the contexts for which designers must prepare
now.
If we get side tracked with the trend words of culture, anthropology and
ecology, we are simply looking sideways at today's issues and passing
those off as 'futures' biased.
Those are tasks that are simply design 'present' and not design 'future'.
For example, if want to design for the ecological future - then it should
be when the oil has run out (i.e next to no plastics) and for the Asian
market.
Folk like Walt Disney, Bill Gates and the Wachowski brothers have a much
keener sense of what we should be designing for ....
http://research.microsoft.com/cml/
Best, Glenn Johnson
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