"Does the future have to be solely shaped by visions like the Metaverse? Can it instead echo sophisticated ancient societies? Be a world not filled with plastics and synthetics, but repurposed natural materials? Is there a way not to subdue nature, but instead embrace and even communicate with it?"
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"One of the issues I'm really interested in is the idea of history, past cultures, and bringing that into the present. Using the future as a place for mindset shifts, but also learning from the past and what's already been created but might have been forgotten. I wonder what lessons we could take from that into the future.
"Interwoven with that is this idea of social change, centering and thinking about the future specifically around BIPOC voices or other underrepresented voices. Imagining the future to think about really what are those impacts on our social fabric that might be coming down the line. And what precedent we might have from the past and from our cultures and traditions, [and could use] to think about and anticipate that change. So that has been very interesting to me to explore [these topics] given the history of future studies, where it came from and how it propagated. Is there room for a less techno-focused future and more of a human-centered future? What does that look like, feel like, and who can we get to help imagine that?" - Alisha Bhagat
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