Thursday, March 31, 2005
Staring at the future
Along with our interest in retrofuturism (examining past predictions about the future and looking at how they have or haven't come to pass etc.), we're also deeply interested in looking ahead. We were recently discussing with a teacher education class their responsibilities concerning the education and preparation of a Grade 4 student in 2007 for adult life in 2016. Some of the resources we came up with to help us envision (or "scenariate") life in 2016 included the following:
- Vodafone's mobile communication and information technologies scenarios
- An intriguing museum of the future
- And the UK's Qualifications and Curriculum Authority's Literacy 21 project (featuring an invited discussion prompt paper by Jackie Marsh)
