The lecture this week involved looking at previous examples of what if scenarios and the way in which other people have interpreted the future. Videos such as Metropolis, were interesting to show the way in which previous generations envisaged the future, and then by comparing it to today's world, being able to see how correct they were.
The film "Robots of Brixton" was an interesting idea of how future trends can echo past events. The film was particularly visually appealing and contained a political message within itself about the state of affairs in 50 years time, involving such motives as cultural, technological and social changes.
The final example of ageing populations and life expectancy trends proved to be a good start in imagining possible future scenarios and provided good foundations on which the imagined scenario can be placed. The implications resulting from these facts and raw data could become compounded and manifold within an envisioned future.
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