Newspaper headlines of the future:
- People stand at pedestrian crossing for days when smart traffic lights fail
- First woman to never experience burnout from the patriarchal structure
- Cockroaches surpass tomatoes as the sweet-sour flavour New Yorkers crave
- The cost of longer life increased by 500% last year
- Behaviour Design: Train your children to empty the dishwasher
- You’ll never guess what they did this time!
- Farmers strike against forced cultivation of high protein sorghum
- Neuralink hacker beautifies dream adverts and adds adrenaline rush
- Still struggling to get it right
- Come together, right now
- We were wrong - behavioural design and social systems as collective madness
- We’re glad you’re still here
- Welcome to the first neighbourhood on Mars
- Back to basics – we do need to exercise
- Singaporeans are the happiest workers in the world!
- Local villages flourish thanks to better literacy
- The world eradicates homelessness
- Campfire gathering outside courthouse with singing and dancing people
- Technology working in favour of well-being
- Fashion finally redundant, we are all transparent anyway
- Imagine when we used fossil fuels!
- Well-being model used in 80% of workplaces, stress declines rapidly
- Fewer accidents connected to smoking in travel pods
- Climate refugee children reduce trauma through play
- Generation omega uses tree-based wifi more than any other generation before
- Last car factory shuts down
- Strong winds, heavy rain and extreme heat
This narrative is based on a scenario collectively conceived and developed by core group participants in a Collaborative Foresight cycle. The group's voice was captured and creatively expanded by the writer.