FARSIGHT

FARSIGHT

By Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS)Society & Culture
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FARSIGHT episodes

  • Food With Thought

    From lettuce ketchup to snail sausages, food designers are challenging culinary norms and changing the way we eat.

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    Author: Josh Sims

    Narration: August Leo Liljenberg

    Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

    9 min
  • The Future of Brain Boosting

    The race is on in Silicon Valley to develop functioning and marketable neural interfaces. Is that goal within reach?

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    Author: Josh Sims

    Narration: August Leo Liljenberg

    Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

    9 min
  • Cooking Up the Future

    In the early 20th century, the Italian artist and ideologue Filippo Marinetti attempted remould his countrymen into the model citizens of a new fascist state - starting with the bellies.

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    Author: Casper Skovgaard Petersen

    Narration: August Leo Liljenberg

    Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies


    8 min
  • The Cybertariat

    A closer look at human-powered automation and the hidden side of the digital economy.

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    Authors: Mathias Behn Bjørnhof, Casper Skovgaard Petersen, August Leo Liljenberg

    Narration: August Leo Liljenberg

    Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies


    12 min
  • The Ethics of Ecological Sabotage

    Our passivity in dealing with climate change and mass extinction may lead to an increase in ‘strategic violence’ in the form of eco-sabotage. When can such actions be justified?

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    Author: Mikkel Kristensen

    Narration: August Leo Liljenberg

    Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

    14 min
  • The Internet as a Right

    Many of the rights we consider fundamental increasingly depend on the ability to go online. What would it take to provide access for all?

    Author: Josh Sims

    Narration: August Leo Liljenberg

    Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

    12 min
  • The Zombie Futurist

    In the year 2000, the futurist FM-2030 was frozen in liquid nitrogen. He is scheduled to be woken up in 2030, the year he turns 100. Will his predictions for the future have come true?

    10 min
  • The Case for Anti-Natalism: A conversation with Professor David Benatar

    How do we safeguard the interests of future generations? For the controversial philosopher David Benatar, it's by ensuring that they never are born in the first place - advocating for the voluntary extinction of the human race.


    Author: August Leo Liljenberg

    Narrated by: August Leo Liljenberg

    Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

    14 min
  • A World Without Youth

    Demographers predict that the number of people alive will reach its peak this century. How will society be affected by an aging and shrinking population?

    Author: Thor Svanholm

    Narration: August Leo Liljenberg

    Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

    13 min
  • The High Cost of Living in the Moment

    ‘Present bias’ permeates much of our decision-making and puts the lives of those yet unborn at risk. What can we do about it?

    Author: Casper Skovgaard Petersen

    Narrator: August Leo Liljenberg

    Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies


    13 min

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Narrated articles and conversations with the world's foremost futures thinkers, delivered to you by FARSIGHT, a quarterly publication by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies.