Articles: Health
Aubrey D.N.J. de Grey (2012)
Anti-aging: let’s go to the unknown
Aubrey de Grey, head of research at SENS Foundation, sees no reason why people shouldn’t be able to live
forever – or at leas t a thousand years – without disability or visible signs of aging. New medicines will be able
to reset the aging process t...
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.
Anders Bjerre, Klaus Æ. Mogensen, Niels Bøttger-Rasmussen, Lisbeth Dons Jensen, Hanna Schüle and Martin Kruse (2008)
Young seniors will shape society
Aging is one of the most striking megatrends changing our society. The number of 60+ year-olds will increase greatly between now and the year 2020. The 60 to 80-year-old cohort will increase most, in percentage and absolute terms.
Anders Bjerre, Klaus Æ. Mogensen, Niels Bøttger-Rasmussen, Lisbeth Dons Jensen, Hanna Schüle and Martin Kruse (2008)
Members' Report #4/2008 The young seniors 2020
Aging is one of the greatest challenges facing Western societies. Aging will influence employee recruitment and retention, consumption, advertising and how society works. Denmark, in 2020, will have 57% more 70 to 74-year-olds, and 20% fewer 35 to 40...
Sally Khallash, Julie Kronstrøm Carton, Jeffrey Scott Saunders, Niels Bøttger-Rasmussen, Klaus Æ. Mogensen, Anders Bjerre, Sara Shamekhi, KNUT GYTHFELDT, LAILA MØRK LILD LILDBALLE and PETER KHALLASH BENGTSEN (2008)
Members' Report #3/2008 Future Happiness
In modern society, we are not offered great stories or eternal truths. Instead, we are faced with the enormous task of creating ourselves from cradle to grave. And with no instructions to live by. It is in this light that happiness becomes interestin...
Henrik Persson (2008)
MR #1/2008 Strategic issue: Food
Is the wolf at the door? Already in 1798, Thomas Malthus, in his “An Essay on the Principle of Population,” anticipated that there would be insufficient food in the future. Right after publication, technological advances boosted food production beyo...
Jeffrey Scott Saunders (2008)
Global Warming: The Carbon Footprint Challenge and the Consumer
Limiting climate change due to global warming seems simple: reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. While this seems straightforward, it isn't. Unless there are radical changes to our entire energy supply, the demands for reduction will clash with the...
Jessica Panke Wagner, Carsten Beck, Martin Kruse, Henrik Persson, Jeffrey Scott Saunders and Kenneth Stormoen (2007)
Members' Report 4/2007: Global Warming - today's debate, tomorrows dilemma
No matter which technological solutions we come to devise in the next ten years, no matter which consensus we reach, no matter what happens when the Kyoto protocol expires in 2012, today's debate and our view of the state of the world will significan...
Troels Theill Eriksen, Henrik Persson, Martin Kruse, Klaus Æ. Mogensen, Niels Bøttger-Rasmussen, Birthe Linddal Hansen and Carsten Beck (2007)
Members' Report 1/2006: Polarisation Trends 2016
Developments in our society during the past 5-10 years have made possible a future society characterised by tension, division and marginalisation, which will come true if we don't act now. This members' report lists, documents and elaborates seven of...
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.
Anne Lise Kjaer (2006)
Emotional consumption
About the quest for meaning and emotional connection in a time of abundance. Read about the four consumer
trends that describe the advanced stage of self-realization that the modern consumer has reached
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...
Anders Bjerre (2006)
The myth of flexible work
The flexible work life is supposed to be great, but development work increases the pressure so much on
knowledge workers that many cannot tackle it. The iron law of knowledge development says you must work harder
and harder. Neither flexibility nor...
Martin Kruse (2005)
Megatrends: Global or regional?
Megatrends are dominating bellwethers that, in all probability, will remain valid for a minimum of the next 15 years. They influence larger portions of society and industry. Megatrends are reliable driving forces, although their effect on regions var...
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...
Martin Spang Olsen (2005)
Path to inspiration
What does inspiration mean for idea development? And can it be learned? Business looks increasingly over the
shoulders of artists. With good reason: the inspired employee works faster and achieves better results than
the uninspired employee. Read a...
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...
Birthe Linddal Hansen (2005)
New Nordic Cuisine
In November 2004 the Nordic Cuisine Symposium was held in Copenhagen. The goal of the symposium was nothing
less than to launch a New Nordic Cuisine - a new gastronomic vision, a new possible 'food ideology', a new
common project, and a new hope fo...
Niels Bøttger-Rasmussen (2004)
Ready to Eat, Ready to Heat, Ready to Cook
Both in Europe and in the United States, 'convenience' is at the top
of the list of food consumption trends. But it is not enough that it
is easy when we substitute convenience food for the home-cooked
meal. It must also be healthy and taste good....
Henning Rasmussen (2003)
Creativity Leads to Reduced Stress
There are a number of ways to prevent stress, e.g. through working out and eating healthy food, but creativity can both prevent stress and develop the personality. With the backing of the management, creativity can also develop the organisation.
Gitte Larsen (2003)
Health and Well-being - in Several Versions
Health and well-being constitute one of the most important agendas of the future. But what does health and well-being mean to the individual? And how does it fit with the dream of the good life? Five seniors from different life modes explain how heal...
Birthe Linddal Hansen (2003)
Review: Fast Food Nation
If you are dissatisfied with the European food industry's morals and lacking ability to produce good and healthy food, you should take a look at the situation in America! Review of Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American M...
Søren Steen Olsen, Anders Bjerre, Niels Bøttger-Rasmussen, Lotte Aabel Østergaard, Klaus Æ. Mogensen and Søren Jensen (2002)
Members' Report 2/2002: The PESCI Challenge: How to Create Productive and Attractive Service Jobs
This report focuses on a labour market trend that tends to be overlooked: that service work becomes industrialised. This isn't true for all service jobs, but for many, especially those in the personal service and care. We call them PESCI jobs.
Birthe Linddal Hansen (2002)
The Manifestation of Body Fixation in the Modern World
The dream of the perfect body has become one of the great ideals of the time. Still more allow their daily lives to be characterised by the dream and struggle of achieving the ideal. The ultimate beauty of the body is one of the popular ideals of our...
Niels Bøttger-Rasmussen (2002)
Health in the Dream Society of the Future: Prozac or Time for the Lilies in the Field?
One of the visions of the future of the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies is Dream Society where we focus on the emotional, that which speaks to the heart and the emotions, in connection with consumption, work and the political life. We do thi...
Rasmus Christensen (2001)
Beef is Worse than War
We live longer than ever before, and life expectancy is only going to increase more. In other words, not a lot suggests that life has become riskier or more dangerous. But we still talk about living in a risk society. Has life become riskier, or are ...
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...
Signe Littrup (2001)
Conditions of Finiteness
Time is very flexible. That it gets better in one place doesn't have to mean that it gets worse elsewhere.
Johan Peter Paludan (2001)
The Patient, the User, the Customer, and the Doctor in the New Millennium
My life belongs to me, not to my relations or to the Lord, and that doesn't reduce the strength of patient demands. It always takes more to impress - new methods of treatment quickly come to seem banal and are taken for granted.
