Overloaded, Under-informed

By Nick de la Mare - June 29, 2009

In 1893 the Newark Ohio Daily Advocate ran a series of articles predicting what the world would look like in a hundred years.

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Future Possible

By Nick de la Mare - June 23, 2009

_{Illustration by Syd Mead.}

Imagining possible futures is a large part of a designer's job, and it's no surprise that so many people in this field are also sci-fi fans. Sci-fi is the designer's role on steroids. The genre's ability to take liberties, to imagine a world that mirrors our own, and explore pathways that we'd never convince a client to follow make it attractive to those in the business of shorter-term future-casting.

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