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Designing for the Future: future possibilities based on current trends…
Designing for the Future: future possibilities based on current trends
Environmental Development
Overpopulation
lack of space
Migrating to places that are currently uninhabited - inland Australia
Extreme temperatures
Access to water and power?
Less household facilities
Space conscious house plans/furniture/inventions
Living undergroud
Japanese coffin beds
Traditional household condensed into one room
depletion of resources
food
will it be supplied and rationed?
need for supermarkets?
water supplies/groundwater
energy sources
fossil fuels
transition to clean energy
solar
Wind Power
Hydroelectric energy
Biomass
Hydrogen and fuel cells
Geothermal power
tides
soil and forests
Climate change- could improve, could get worse...
Temperatures
Pollution
toxicity in the air?
health threat
unbreathable air
retreat to undergrounds?
life on earth?
another planet?
Living underground - easy temperature regulation
Eco/self sustained homes
human-induced Greenhouse gases
transportation
fossil fuels
agriculture
Ozone layer depletion- heat/sun protection
Natural disasters.
Acid rain
Economic Development
growing disparity between the elite and working class
economical stratification
capitalism
stock market crash
Extreme Fluctuation in Currency globally
Social Development
Overpopulation
Political climate
Rise of oppressive rulers aka poor leadership
uneducated hatred towards minorities and LGBTQ+ community
has this happened before? is history repeating itself? if so how can we learn from our ancestors mistakes?
terrorism
climate of fear
mass violence
collapse of western society
war? civil/international?
nuclear destruction?
oligarchy
Role of technology
disconnection from nature
isolation
transhumanism
invasion of privacy
will there even be privacy?
AI
robots
Humans begin searching for life outside earth
Economical stratification
collapse of western society
financial inequality
rise of the elite, divide with the working class
role of religion and belief systems