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FARSIGHT
By Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS)Society & Culture
FARSIGHT episodes
- Farewell to the Astronaut?
Why there will always be a need for manned space exploration missions, regardless of technological advances in robotics and AI.
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Author: Josh Sims
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
12 min - What Will Leisure Mean to Us in the Future?
As technological strides edge us closer to a post-work world, how we perceive ‘down-time’ could undergo a radical transformation.
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Author: Owen Savage
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
11 min - Excursions With Empathy
Global tourist hotspots are integrating sustainability into their business models as holidaying abroad moves from luxury to necessity.
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Author: Monika Volgyi & Celine Athina Vang
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
13 min - The Ancient Assyrian Who Invented Sci-Fi
Before Thomas More or H.G Wells came the tongue-in-cheek satirist, Lucien of Samosata.
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Author: Casper Skovgaard Petersen
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
8 min - To Boozy Futures
A civilisational defence of the intoxicant amid cultural retrograde – alcohol.
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Author: August Leo Liljenberg
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
19 min - Eating & Techno-Pleasures
Technology’s convergence with eating and sex could push both into strange and uncharted territory.
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Author: Sarah Frosh
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
12 min - What Gaming Could Be
From VR to crypto and AR to AI – how might emerging technologies intersect with the human desire for play?
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Author: Lena Hunter
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
20 min - Bored of the Future?
How philosophers and psychologists have tried to answer the question of whether to embrace or resist the mundane – and why efforts seem to be so futile, nonetheless.
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Author: Casper Skovgaard Petersen
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
10 min - Eske Willerselv is Building a Genomic Time Machine
The renowned evolutionary biologist explains why the future of food needs to be rooted in the ancient past – and how he and his team are working to make that happen.
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Author: Emilie Balk-Møller
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
10 min - Free From Work
Amid job automation, a push toward shorter work weeks, and growing political interest in Universal Basic Income schemes, why does is the idea that work is virtuous still so pervasive?
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Author: Josh Sims
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
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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.