Fast Forward
The world has been transformed. What shall we make?
The world is radically different today than it was yesterday. Our global paradigm is characterized by crumbling energy regimes, dwindling raw materials, fading geopolitical boundaries, the commodification of personal time, and the radical transformation of our physical environment.
As the industrial era concludes its final chapter, we enter a second machine age which is defined by the marriage of biological and mechanical systems, a massively distributed alternative-energy economy, and the ultimate blurring between work, live, and play.
Design will play a fundamental role in this new epoch, and creativity will be the ultimate criterion for success. Since new problems will require new solutions, we can only preserve the future by letting go of present conventions. Creating a non-fossil-fuel based energy regime and remediating damaged global ecologies, for example, will be two of many imminent challenges that will require profoundly creative answers.
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