Did you send someone 23andMe last year? Then how about this? Did I hear someone say Facebook smell timeline?
http://smellmemorykit.supersense.com/
Fun Christmas Presents
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Future of London
I was doing the keynore at this yesterday. Was I the only one that noticed one of the wi-fi networks (second one down)? I’m guessing this is a paintball company or someone pretending to be something they’re not, but quite funny.
Totally Random
The End of Surgery?
Spotted this the other day (London Evening Standard). Interesting, but I imagine that human input will be minimal once the robotic surgeons take over (20 years?). Longer -term I suspect that surgery won’t exist at all except for child-birth (at least that’s what various surgeons keep telling me).
Cyborg Symbiosis
Spotted in the Economist.
Oh that’s what it is…
I’ve never quite understood what the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey is. I think I’m now starting to understand.
Objects from the Future
I love the idea of using physical objects to provoke peoples’ thinking about the future – especially objects that don’t exist just yet!
Worth a visit. V&A.
T-Shirt Watch
Many moons ago (I’ve never used that phrase before , where did that suddenly come from I wonder?) I wrote something on weak signals and mentioned that t-shirt slogans are a good source of weak signals, emerging trends or at least new feelings. Here’s a t-shirt from, rather weirdly, from a cybersecurity conference of all places.
Are we reaching peak vegan?
Global Strategic Trends
GST6 is just out. It’s the best publication of its type and well worth a read. Link to PDF download here.