FARSIGHT

The ubiquity of smartphones and social media has turbocharged visual culture. With the addition of increasingly sophisticated and affordable cosmetic surgeries, beauty standards are pushed into strange new territories.

Caroline Zielinski

Narration: Manya Lind (with ElevenLabs AI)

Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

Future generations lack political representation, constituting ‘shadow interests’ in our systems of governance. Yet ensuring their wellbeing may soon become a political concern.

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Author: Nicklas Larsen & Thor Svanholm Gustavfson

Narration: August Leo Liljenberg (with ElevenLabs AI)

Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

Some believe distinctions between the organic and the artificial are meaningless in a techsaturated world. Personality-altering brain implants may force us to rethink this notion.

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Author: Christian Kaarup Baron

Narration: August Leo Liljenberg (with ElevenLabs AI)

Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

Chile's cybernetic control project collapsed in 1972. Why did Project Cybersyn fail, and what can we learn from its history?

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Author: Casper Skovgaard Petersen

Narration: Manya Lind (supported by ElevenLabs AI)

Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

The rich, willing, and techno-optimistic are spending fortunes optimising their biological functions to perpetuate youth. Biohacking, once described as ‘garage transhumanism’, has more than left the garage.

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Author: Caitlin van Bommel

Narration: August Leo Liljenberg (supported by ElevenLabs AI)

Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

James Arrowood, co-CEO of Alcor Life Extension Foundation, wants a fresh start for the business of reviving the dead.

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Author: Casper Skovgaard Petersen & August Leo Liljenberg

Narration: August Leo Liljenberg (with ElevenLabs AI)

Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

Transhumanist philosopher David Pearce envisions a world filled with varying sizes of carrots, and no sticks.

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Author: August Leo Liljenberg

Narration: Manya Lind (supported by ElevenLabs AI)

Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

Israel’s deployment of the algorithmic targeting tool 'Lavender' in their ongoing war on Gaza has reignited the debate surrounding the use of autonomous technology for making life-and-death decisions. This raises important questions about a potential future where humans are progressively marginalised from decision-making in conflicts.

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Author: Solveij Mailänder

Narration: August Leo Liljenberg (supported by ElevenLabs AI)

Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

Public figures like to claim that the world has never been as volatile and complex as it is today - but is that really the case?

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Author: Alex Fergnani

Narration: August Leo Liljenberg (ElevenLabs AI)

Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

Three archetypal scenarios dominate the public perception of what an eventual encounter with extraterrestrials on Earth will look like. So what happens when the aliens arrive? A task force at the UN has a plan drawn up.

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Author: Christian Kaarup Baron

Narration: August Leo Liljenberg (AI with ElevenLabs)

Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies