Articles: Technology
Morten Grønborg (2013)
SCENARIO 03:2013 - UK
(2013)
CIFS News
This section presents trends, enters
into debates concerning them, and
gives you an overview of the latest
news from the Copenhagen Institute
for Futures Studies.
Isabelle Visti Motet (2013)
MEMBERS’ COMMENTS
We asked some of our members about
the significance of the ‘The future
belongs to the city’ theme, and the
impact they think it might have on
their businesses.
(2013)
WE DO NOT NEED TO DRIVE WHERE WE ARE GOING!
According to Chris Urmson, the leader
of Google’s self-driving car project, we
will soon be able to create cars that
are reacting faster and steering more
accurately than humans. Then, cars
can be packed more tightly, closer
together, making it...
(2013)
THE URBAN EXPLOSION
According to the UN, over the next
few decades the world’s population
will grow from just over seven billion
today to eight billion by 2025, and to
nine billion by 2040. At the same time,
a growing share of the population is
moving to the big c...
Martin Kruse, Henrik Persson, Ulrik Blinkenberg, Klaus Æ. Mogensen and João Faria Vaz Passos (2013)
Members' Publication #2 2013
Martin Kruse and Henrik Persson (2013)
The Future Belongs to the City
While you may be reading this on an airplane heading to Singapore or in
a cottage in Norway, most likely your home address will be in a city, and this
is where you will live along with 60 per cent of the rest of the world for the
remainder of your...
Morten Grønborg and Jesper Knudsen (2013)
SCENARIO 02:2013 - UK
Charlotte Xenia Brøns-Poulsen (2013)
Members' comments
We asked some of our members
about the signification of the theme,
Freedom from Ownership and the
impacts it might have on their
businesses.
Klaus Æ. Mogensen and Niels Bøttger-Rasmussen (2013)
THE LIBERATION OF THE 21ST CENTURY: FREEDOM FROM OWNERSHIP
We want to rent, share and borrow
rather than own. This trend is clear
on the internet where a wealth of
services offer us access to e.g. digital
music, movies, books, and magazines.
The trend, however, doesn’t
end there and will in the future ...
Klaus Æ. Mogensen and Niels Bøttger-Rasmussen (2013)
Freedom from Ownership - Intro
Trend: We want access – but don’t want to own!
The trend is clear in the digital world:
we want to rent, borrow and share,
but not own. Are you ready for a
future when fewer will want to buy and own products? This may soon become reality, even in...
Morten Grønborg and Jesper Knudsen (2012)
SCENARIO 01:2013 - UK
Henrik Persson and Michael Björn, Head of Research at Ericsson ConsumerLab (2012)
In-line Shopping
To be a winner in tomorrow’s retailing industry you need to be present when the customer’s need arises, no matter where or when it is. You need to offer your customers instant and easy satisfaction of their needs in line with their habits and rituals...
Morten Grønborg (2012)
SCENARIO 05:2012 - UK
Jeffrey Scott Saunders (2012)
Book review: The invisible filter
FRA SCENARIO 01:2012
Klaus Æ. Mogensen (2012)
Bionics: a future without disabled people?
Chloe Holmes is an English schoolgirl of 15 and is much like other teenagers, with one crucial difference
– she has no fingers. She has now been given a glove with built-in robotic fingers, controlled by
her own thoughts. She is just one example of...
Klaus Æ. Mogensen (2012)
Brief - Updates on technology and science
FRA SCENARIO 01:2012
Klaus Æ. Mogensen (2012)
The Aladdin syndrome
FRA SCENARIO 01:2012
Klaus Æ. Mogensen (2012)
Techtalk
FRA SCENARIO 01:2012
Johan Peter Paludan (2012)
Automated communication: the internet of things
FRA SCENARIO 01:2012
Anders Bjerre and Klaus Æ. Mogensen (2012)
The new media revolution
We are in the midst of a media revolution as big as the one that happened when Gutenberg invented the
printing press. According to the authors, it will contribute to major social changes and change the balance
of power in society, but first and for...
Klaus Æ. Mogensen (2012)
Who will have the power over future media?
New technology will also in t he future challenge ‘big media’ – the large, traditional media companies.
Among other trends, there is a movement towards more user control and individual production, which
establishes an undergrowth of ‘little media’....
Klaus Æ. Mogensen (2012)
Books in 2020
Limitations in the digital format make it likely that a good par t of future books in 2020 AD will be
printed on paper. However, the digital possibilities will be consider able.
Anders Colding-Jørgensen (2012)
Goodbye to the global information society
Facebook has abolished our online anon ymity, so now the internet is no long er primarily about information –
it’s about identity. We should no long er see the internet as a pos t office where information is sent bac k and
forth, but rather than as...
(2012)
Augmented reality
10 tendencies for technology and work life. In 2010, the telecom company 3 established the 3 Future Forum think
tank in order to stay abreast of changes. Together with the Copenhagen
Institute for Futures Studies and a range of top business executi...
Jan Drejer Petersen (2012)
The future of the past: Pirate radio
Today’s topical issues and trends are often rooted in past events.
They may even have historical precedents that we simply have forgotten.
Hence, we use this spot in the magazine to look back at past issues and trends and in par ticular:
the futur...
Christian Kraft (2012)
User experience as the main battle ground for future product innovation
Apple kicked Nokia down the hill, and the lesson from the world of mobile phones is clear: consumers want more than a product that just works. Even now, consumer experience innovation is a central factor for a broad range of consumer-oriented product...
Henrik Moltke (2012)
Liquid democracy: What do the pirates want with their power?
It all started with a bunch of loosely coordinated internet activists in conflict with the law. Their common ground was a love for computers and a hatred of the entertainment industry’s lawyers. Their critics called them pirates because they shared f...
Morten Grønborg (2012)
SCENARIO 03:2012 (UK)
Morten Grønborg (2011)
Not always nice
Lone Frank, the science journalist, has just written a personal, bittersweet and extremely informative book about her voyage through the genetic tests of this world. She has a PhD in neurobiology and is an advocate of making genetic information avail...
Emilie Fuglsang (2011)
Web 3.0 and 4.0
For business, the be-all and end-all for success lies in understanding how to handle this new Internet agenda, of which
we will all be a part. It is also important to understand that even though more and more knowledge becomes available
to us, we w...
Jeffrey Scott Saunders (2011)
Paper is not dead
Digitalisation reshapes the communication environment, and the question is whether paper will go the way of
Kodak film? Probably. But before you write off paper’s potential as a communication tool in the future, read
Jeffrey Saunders’ article about...
Natasha Friis Saxberg (2011)
“Don’t use the social web as a layer on top of your organisation..."
– use it as the foundation for your income”. Lane Becker studied art history and dreamed of a professorship, but became a w eb pioneer in Silicon Valley.
He has resided in this epicentre for communication technology since 1994. It was he and others ...
Klaus Æ. Mogensen, Carsten Beck, Kim Møller-Elshøj, Troels M. Kranker, Sally Khallash, Mette Skovbjerg and Jeffrey Scott Saunders (2010)
Members' report 2/2010:
10 Tendencies Towards 2020
The report presents short articles on ten tendencies that will be of importance for the way we live, the decisions
we make, and how we work towards 2020 in the West and globally.
(2010)
FO 6/2009 EN
Sara Shamekhi (2009)
Sedentary work - more mobile than ever?
Mobility means that you move geographically, socially or economically, but the concept also includes the freedom to move so that the boundaries are blurred between the real and the virtual, the static and moving, and the classic dichotomy of work/lei...
Jacob Suhr Thomsen (2008)
Interaction designers
Technology, design and innovation. A new master's level education in interaction design is about understanding and using the relationship between the human, the design and the technology. Meet the woman behind the education many young people will dem...
Gitte Larsen (2007)
Virtual living
Editorial from Futureorientationn 3/2007
Christine Lind Ditlevsen and Niels Krøjgaard (2007)
Physical products of the future
Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies has carried out a combined scenario and creative process for JBS, a maker of underwear. The result was various useful ideas for new products. Read about how you can create the physical products of the future, ...
Klaus Æ. Mogensen (2006)
Time travel
Can we travel in time? And what sort of paradoxes does it involve, if we can? Physicists and science fiction writers each have their own ideas about time travel.
Allan Jenkins (2006)
Virtual riches - real wealth
If you visit the website Anshechung.com, you will quickly realize you have reached the website of an important
real estate agent. Led by CEO Anshe Chung, the group handles commercial, residential, and vacation properties
in Geneva, Gotland, Ibiza, ...
Anders Kristian Munk (2006)
Foodfair 2020 - A documentary about food articles
This weekend, professionals, amateurs, and enthusiasts meet at the food industry's annual food Mecca:
FoodFair 2020. We were there as the doors opened Friday morning.
Morten K. Pedersen and Chris Pedersen (2006)
The third way of consumption
Do we understand the consumption of the present and future when we debate whether consumption is a choice
between good and evil, between happy self-realization and human and ecological catastrophe? No, says British
anthropologist Daniel Miller, who...
Niels Bøttger-Rasmussen (2006)
Zombies - the Living Dead
Futures Studies typically focus on the new things that come. However, an important part of the changes the
future brings are the things that disappear. So if you are looking for new opportunities, zombies may be a
place to start looking. The Copenh...
Niels Krøjgaard and Thomas Lütken (2006)
You need spectacles!
Tools for inspiration: Let's agree. It happens to you, too. How often have you confronted a problem
where habitual thinking blocks new, creative ideas? How often have you strained to be innovative, and the only
result was the same old result? There...
Martin Kruse (2005)
Mutants and vampires roam the streets
Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies Members Report #2 this year was about the physical products of the future. The report contains seven stories of the future - including examples of concrete physical products developed for each particular futur...
Jon Frederik Høyrup (2005)
Biotech's opium war
Asian countries are exceptionally enthusiastic about biotechnology's development. Governments take initiatives. Dynamism and economic results are driven by enthusiasm. Biotechnological researchers attain rock-star status. Why is this happening in the...
Sean Pillot de Chenecey (2005)
‘Communities of Interest' in the global economy
In an issue of FO/Futureorientation devoted to globalization, there's one person that you must acknowledge - Theodore Levitt. It's over twenty years since he wrote his epoch-making article “The Globalization of Markets” in Harvard Busines...
Allan Jenkins (2005)
Let crowds change your business
Who speaks for your company? Your CEO or thousands of customers? And who knows best if your next product will
launch on March 1? You - or a thousand employees whose names you will never know? Here are how weblogs
and prediction markets let brave ma...
Thomas Geuken (2005)
Small Thoughts from an Innovative Mind
Small Thoughts: In each issue of FO, Thomas Geuken, a CIFS associate and industrial psychologist, has a
conversation about that issue's theme with the world's most creative and future-oriented leaders. This time,
Thomas is having a chat with David ...
Kristina L. Søgaard and Anders Kristian Munk (2005)
Year 2020: Brave New Body World - Review of an exhibition about the body
Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies Members Report #2 this year was about the physical products of the
future. The report contains seven stories of the future - including examples of concrete physical products
developed for each particular fut...
Kristina L. Søgaard, Anders Kristian Munk, Martin Kruse and Martin Hasforth Harms (2005)
Members' Report 2/2005: The Physical Products of the Future
Why the report looks the way it does: On this occasion, the Institute's membership report doesn't look its usual self. The format is different, and there are lots of pictures and illustrations where we usually have charts and graphs. The main reason ...
Klaus Æ. Mogensen (2005)
The Media Creators
The media consumer of the future is active, investigative, critical, selective and participating. With CIFS's
scenario of the future, Creative Man, the media consumer becomes a media creator. Read about how the four
perhaps most important megatrend...
Sean Pillot de Chenecey (2005)
Consumer Power - online
The Medium is the Messenger: It´s all about mobile technology and marketing, about real time access rather
than quality, and about building new synergies in a disrupted and fragmented marketplace. Welcome to the world
of the digital consumers
Kåre Stamer Andreasen and Martin Kruse (2005)
Energy and environment 2040
Energy is crucial to the continuing growth of the global economy and to secure global wealth. Global energy
consumption has increased almost exponentially since 2005. Even then Asia was the continent that used the
largest share of the World's energ...
Martin Kruse (2005)
Is Decentralisation the Way Ahead for Production?
As technology develops, more and more production is moving into individual shops and homes. At the same time,
however, technological development also makes it possible for traditionally decentralised production to become
centralised. What effect do...
Johan Peter Paludan (2005)
Target groups of the future choose their own messages
The future does not exist. Hence it cannot be predicted, only debated. But decisions have to be made today,
and these decisions have to work in the future, the future that is so badly 'documented'. So here in the
present, we must make a number of g...
Klaus Æ. Mogensen (2005)
The Consumers Will Seize the Means of Production
New technology now makes the decentralisation of more and more manufacturing both possible and desirable
Jon Høyrup (2005)
Theme meeting 20/10-04: The Future Energy Supply
Summary of the theme meeting held October 20th 2004: The Future Energy Supply. We are facing a growing demand
for energy in the coming years. This theme meeting focused on the three main challenges: supply security,
prices and pollution.
K. Andreasen, Carsten Beck, Anders Bjerre, Niels Bøttger-Rasmussen, M. Harms, J. Høyrup, Martin Kruse, B. Linddal, Klaus Æ. Mogensen, U. Palludan, K. Zinck, T.T. Eriksen and Søren Riis (2004)
Members' Report 4/2004: 2040
The Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies had its 35th anniversary in January 2005. For that occasion, we look ahead rather than back and present a possible view of the World of 2040 A.D. with special attention paid to the Scandinavian countries. ...
Jon Høyrup (2004)
Theme meeting 17/9-04: OFF – the Return to Freedom
Summary of the theme meeting held September 17th 2004: OFF – the Return to Freedom.
Klaus Æ. Mogensen (2004)
Science News 1/2004
Sleep is good for the soul - Nano-sized fibre optics - The car summons
help on its own - New treatment for spinal injuries
Morten Grønborg and Klaus Æ. Mogensen (2004)
RFID - Invisible Technology
The real challenge to the retail trade due to current technological development will not, in the short run, come from e-business, but from Radio Frequency ID technology (RFID). The upcoming breakthrough in the field of this invisible technology will ...
Klaus Æ. Mogensen (2004)
Faster, taller, stronger
Athletes sum up the Olympic ideal in the expression "faster, higher,
stronger". The world's engineers and architects might well adopt a
similar slogan - "faster, taller, stronger" - as they attempt to erect
ever-more fantastic constructions. We ta...
Morten K. Pedersen (2004)
Daily Life Communication Technology
Information and communication technology (ICT) will change the
world. The whole world. And for the better. At least according to
claims about how ICT constitutes a driving force for social
development. But what specific ICTs have the potential to ...
Axel Olesen (Direktion og ledelse), Søren Riis, Niels Bøttger-Rasmussen, Kristina L. Søgaard, Klaus Æ. Mogensen, Morten Grønborg, Henrik Persson, K. Andreasen, M. Søltoft, U. Palludan, B. Linddal and Gitte Larsen (2004)
Members' Report 4/2003: 10 tendencies towards 2010
10 tendencies towards 2010 is a presentation of the struggle for the
future. The tendencies set the stage, but they don't decide the
outcome. The outcome is decided by the people and companies that find
both challenges and opportunities in this st...
Niels Bøttger-Rasmussen (2004)
I-Technology
Toward 2010, technologies will increasingly be individual
technologies. The new technology must adapt to people - not the other
way around. I-technology can be Individualised and is Intelligent,
Interactive and Integrating, and it can be the solut...
Klaus Æ. Mogensen (2004)
Science News 4/2003
The computer understands your drawings - Genetically modified bacterium offers protection against HIV - Robots take shape - We love what we have - Bans on antibiotics in food work
Klaus Æ. Mogensen (2003)
Science News 4/2003
Light, cheap and environment-friendly batteries - broadband by balloon - goodbye to the mouse - locational information to your mobile phone - bend your computer - a cool glass in the summer heat.
Klaus Æ. Mogensen (2003)
Science News 3/2003
Summaries of recent discoveries from the world of science and technology.
Carsten Beck and Anders Bjerre (2003)
Trends 2003 - and Wildcards
What certain trends are American futurists pointing to as being the most important in 2003? What are the consequences for USA and the rest of the world? And what 'wildcards' can change the course of the future?
Klaus Æ. Mogensen (2003)
Science News 2/2003
Summaries of recent discoveries from the world of science
Klaus Æ. Mogensen (2003)
Science News 1/2003
Summaries of recent discoveries from the world of science
Jacob David Jaskov and Svend Ask Larsen (2003)
What is Artificial Intelligence?
In 2002, the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies and the Danish Science Festival co-operated in developing an educational role-playing game about artificial intelligence, called “Brainbuilders”. You can read more about “Brainbuilders” and the us...
Klaus Æ. Mogensen (2003)
Science News 6/2002
This is a collection of recent science news from the magazines Nature and New Scientist, selected and abbreviated by CIFS. The news items have been chosen for their relevance to CIFS members.
Jacob David Jaskov (2003)
Simulated Relevance - Role-playing and Learning Situations
The Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies has developed a new unique learning tool, “Brainbuilders”. It is a game based on simulated relevance; i.e., on a meaningful situation in the present. It is the first of its kind in the world, a...
Henrik S. Kristensen (2003)
The 4 Value Steps and the Meaningful Product
Why do our customers really buy our products? Why is it meaningful for our customers to spend money on exactly what we offer them? These are simple questions, but it is rarely simple to answer them. The better you are able to answer them, the better ...
(2002)
The Music Business Has Gone Disco
Review: Mark Jenkins: Hit Charade. The music industry's self-inflicted wounds. Slate, August 20th 2002.
Søren Steen Olsen (2002)
Thought Control in the Future?
If you can improve humanity, there will be an opportunity for optimising and unifying individuals based on a given human ideal. And there is a risk of a gap between those who have access to technological improvements and those who don’t.
Henrik S. Kristensen (2002)
Nature, Life and Living Technologies
Information technology and biotechnology are going to dominate the development in the next decades. These are the living technologies. They will not only change what we are able to do, but also how we view the world. We get new ideas about what is na...
Søren Steen Olsen (2002)
The Digital Divide Has Been Cancelled
The explosive proliferation of ever-more advanced computers has for almost twenty years been in focus in the discussion about the development of society. One of the worries that were formulated early on was the fear that it would lead to a divide bet...
Lotte Aabel Østergaard (2002)
Women and Technology!
In the project "The Elderly and IT - A Structured Life in the Future," two groups of women participated, representing each their own life mode - backing-up women and housewives. The women have in common that their families and homes are the centres a...
Henrik S. Kristensen (2002)
Information, Risks and Stories: Why Genetic Tech. is Accepted for Medical Uses, But Rejected in Food
What comes after the industrial society? Some suggestions have been the post-industrial society, the information society, the network society, or the risk society. And after all of these comes the dream society. Very likely all these societal descrip...
Henrik S. Kristensen (2002)
Natural and Unnatural in the Future
What is right is that which is natural. But the concept of what is natural isn't constant. It changes in pace with the changes in culture and not least technology. Biotechnology and information technology will have great consequences for the ideas of...
Nicolai Carlberg (2002)
A Good Elderly Life in a Digital World
In 2002, the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies wraps up a three-year project about how elderly people use information technology. The project has been financed by the Danish Research Agency.
Kirsten Marie Rasmussen (2002)
When Homo Faber Creates Himself
More than ever before, we are now becoming aware of the possibilities mankind has from being a creative man - a homo faber1. With the current technology - especially IT and biotechnology - we no...
Henrik S. Kristensen (2002)
Superconvergence
By calling the internet cyberspace, you are often led to think of it as something isolated from the physical world, but in reality the reverse is true. The internet of the future will more than anything be integrated into the physical world. People w...
Anne Skare Nielsen (2002)
The Power of Metaphors
Few things are as immediately useful as tools for both communication and management as metaphors are. We are all marionettes of language, and the power that language and metaphors have over us isn't easy to get rid of. But it can be channelled and ut...
Søren Steen Olsen (2002)
Your Head on the Blog
’Blog’ is short for ‘web log’. The word doesn’t just cover that you can ‘log on’, but also that it is a diary – a personal log that is made available on the internet, and hence to the entire world.
Signe Littrup (2002)
Knowledge and Values and the Pace of Change
Both anthropologists and social scientists have pointed out that many people and population groups react to what they experience as too many shifts and changes in too short a time by demanding constants, things that don't change, but remain then same...
Klaus Æ. Mogensen (2002)
Time Is Not on Our Side
In these times where the internet grows in both extent and utility, we get recurrent visions about future, world-spanning networks based on Virtual Reality or other types of real-time interactivity. But one thing is often overlooked when the visions ...
Birthe Linddal Hansen (2002)
Communicating Biotechnology to Future Stakeholders
What is life? According to futurist Anne Skare Nielsen, the present bioethical debate very much revolves around what life is and how we define the concept of life. People generally have very different ideas about the concept of life, and for this rea...
Henrik S. Kristensen (2001)
Life, Nature and Business
To identify the business rationality of the future, we have to look as what will shape our thinking. We have to look at the models we will use in the future. At the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies we think that the two major models for think...
Henrik S. Kristensen, Anne Skare Nielsen, Carsten Beck, Klaus Æ. Mogensen and Rasmus Rune Nielsen (2001)
Members' Report 4/2001: Life and Living Technologies
In the future IT and biotechnology will be as the two sides of the same coin. IT and biotechnology will be united as what we call Living Technologies. What will be common for them is that both technological areas will be dealing with living or quasi-...
Anne Skare Nielsen (2001)
The ethical compass
It is quite common to say that everything was much easier and simpler in the good old days, and that the world today is becoming more complicated and confusing. This statement is not necessarily correct, but if we were to point out one difference bet...
Nicolai Carlberg (2001)
Human Pig
A patient suffering from a heart disease is lying near death. The surgeon enters the sterile stable. The pig, a young transgenetic specimen from the company Biotech Ltd., senses the danger and moves nervously around in the narrow confines. The pig is...
Anne Skare Nielsen (2001)
New Technologies in the Dream Society
The biggest question facing the 21st century can be stated in a few words: What does it mean to be "human?" The answer to that question will affect our most basic values and moral codes. And it may lead to an intensification of religious and moral co...
Trine Schjødt (2001)
You Will Become Your Own Boss!
In a few years you'll go to your place of learning mainly to hang out. E-learning and long distance schools make you the centre of your own educational universe, but remember: networking is the way to go!
Henrik S. Kristensen (2001)
Products Become Services
One of the areas where the developments in information technology have had some consequences, but where the greatest revolutions still lie ahead, is consumption. Within the next decade, developments in IT are going to fundamentally change not only ho...
Jacob David Jaskov (2001)
Depth without Obligation
No, social life isn't going to take place solely on the internet, and closeness in human contact is not going to become immaterial in the future. That it - perhaps - was like this for some of the first pioneering nerds in the so-called ‘web communiti...
Johan Peter Paludan (2001)
The Key to the Future
What is the future going to look like and what will it bring? These have always been two questions that mankind has wanted an answer to. The director of CIFS offers his idea of how the future will be in 5, 10 and 15 years.
Henrik S. Kristensen (2001)
The IT Map
Information technology is a filled with many dimensions, and it can be hard to orient oneself without a good map. In this article, we draw such a map, containing seven provinces - seven essential areas for development within information technology.
Axel Olesen (Direktion og ledelse) (2001)
Are the Robots Going to Take Over Our Work?
Digitalisation may be the single factor that has the greatest potential for changing the labour market. Is it going to marginalise people, or on the contrary empower them? Is there a need for finding a defence against digitalisation? It is likely tha...
Johan Peter Paludan (2001)
I(rri)T(ating)
I still recall the hush of indignation that went through a group of people from the IT professions some years ago when I heard Nicholas Negroponte put forward the heretical question: “What was wrong with WordPerfect 4.0, anyway?” At that point, we ha...
Henrik S. Kristensen (2001)
Virtual Humans
Professor Kela Kvam at the Institute for Theater Science at the Univeristy of Copenhagen asked me back in November 2000 whether I would do a presentation about "virtual celebrities" or what you could call "virtual humans". Kela Kvam had read an inter...
Henrik S. Kristensen (2001)
When Life Becomes Technology and Technology Comes Alive
Our field of action is determined by what we feel is natural. No one claims to, or consciously wishes to, act against the natural order of things. But it is possible to have different ideas about what is natural, and to have different views of what t...
Henrik S. Kristensen (2001)
The New Natural Order of Things
We have in the last few decades increasingly seen that questions have been raised regarding how acceptable the possibilities that we get from new technologies like biotechnology are. There has been a lot of talking about ethics and morality, because ...
Henrik S. Kristensen and Anne Skare Nielsen (2001)
Living Technologies
"The great ideological discussions in the 20th century were connected to the concept of ‘society'. The ideological conflicts, problems and contrasts of opinion of the 21st century will be rooted in the concept of ‘life'."
Anne Skare Nielsen (2001)
The Life Society
As we now are trying to understand Life, it would be nice if we had some tools for that purpose. Particularly tools suited for solving the problem or task. It is possible to hammer a screw in, but the result is undoubtedly neater if you can choose yo...
Anne Skare Nielsen (2001)
The meaning of life
Life is complex, and the dream society will often fail in the understanding of it. The position the market had in the past, life will have in the future, and hence we must develop new analytical tools. The new technologies of the future deal with ele...
Signe Littrup (2001)
What we can learn from science fiction?
Norbert Wiener, one of the founders of cybernetics and a key figure in the development of information technology, used his spare time to write science fiction. Technological "gadgets" from Star Wars and Star Trek such as light-sensitive doors that op...
Anne Skare Nielsen (2001)
Playing God
Big opportunities, big revenues, big consequences and big risks. This could
be a short description of most biotechnology opinion polls. Maybe one does not
know much about biotechnology but a science that holds so much promise of
reducing suffering...
Anne Skare Nielsen (2001)
Playing God II
How shall we relate to this both promising and frightening biological manipulative future? Should we take each development as it comes or shall we prepare ourselves for innumerable different scenarios? Is it at all possible to control the development...
Signe Littrup and Camilla P. V. Andersen (2001)
Fictitious worlds as a weapon against habits
Even though innovative thinking is an important part of our lives and work, we seldom permit ourselves to engage in it. We prefer progressing along the same track, and if we need to think five years ahead, we tend generally - as futurologists have al...
Carsten Beck, Niels Bøttger-Rasmussen, Anders Bjerre, Axel Olesen (Direktion og ledelse), Erica Skafdrup Hornemann, Mette Peetz-Schou and Kim Grue (1998)
Members' Report 3/1998: The Future of Trading on the Internet
The report only deals with the Business-to-Business (B2B) market, for the simple reason that this is where things are happening at the moment - the quiet revolution. The report starts with a series of conclusions and recommendations. The technologica...
