THE WHY BEHIND MIDCENTURY Pecha Kucha by Hank Kune
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HAT will be like to be human in 2050? It depends on your age, what you have gone through in life, and your point of view. Each generation experiences the world differently, with the perceptions of its cohort. Some generations will be marked by a crisis or a collapse, others marked by a rebuild or a renewal. At our next Midcentury there will be diverse perspectives. I think our lives at Midcentury will feel surprising similar to our world today – with a legacy of nearly 30 years of climate disruptions and conflicts, of course – with more digitality, more technology, some lessons learned, and our ‘relentless search for the society of the future’ still intact. A key question for every generation is: Who owns the future? The answers we describe will define us, helping us to celebrate time by marking its special moments. It is a human tendency to rebuild according to collective memories of ‘the past’ as our paradise lost, and find opportunities to regain that world in the way we remember it – with a nostalgia for what never was. . . .and that is also part of this story. Just like every moment in time, Midcentury finds us at the intersection of past and future.
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