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Education
What Will Education Be Like in 100 Years?
An author from 1900 has a compelling vision for education that includes free universities and in-school medical care for all students.
Education
Fifth-Year Senior: Why Making High School Longer Is a Brilliant Idea
Maine wants to accelerate the traditional secondary curriculum and bring introductory college courses down to high school.
Culture
Infographic: Life in the Year 2050
What do Americans think the world will be like in 40 years?
Lifestyle
Feeding the Tiny Humans of the Future: Amsterdam's Disproportionate Restaurant
A new restaurant explores the way genetically-engineered one-and-a-half foot tall humans might cook, eat, and farm.
Lifestyle
Taste of Tech: Biohacking the Future
How to make your own genetically modified seed—and what might happen if you do.
Lifestyle
Food for Thinkers: The Grand Finale
Recipes for transgenic foods, the ethics of cyborg Jainism, lunar agriculture, and Harry Potter at the farmers' market: food for future thinkers.
Lifestyle
Food for Thinkers: Medieval Soldiers and Modern Stunting
Jeremy Cherfas explores the relationship between the remarkable history of human stunting and the future of genetically engineered biofortified crops.
Lifestyle
The Stove-Killer: Wireless Charging Techology Cooks Soup
The techies at this week's Consumer Electronics Show turn their attention to dinner.
Lifestyle
Year in Review 2010: 2011 Food Predictions
What can an outpouring of 2011 food trend predictions tell us about today, if not tomorrow?
Lifestyle
This Exemplary Embodiment: The Year in Food Patents
I think that patent applications—where human ingenuity meets dreams of profit, within the straitjacket of line diagrams and legal prose—might be...
Lifestyle
Future Foragers: Dunne & Raby Redesign Human Digestion to Redefine "Food"
British duo Dunne & Raby explain how they use design to start a conversation about the future of food.
Lifestyle
Salt Crystals, Stevia, and the SunChips Bag: An Interview with PepsiCo's Derek Yach
PepsiCo's Derek Yach discusses how his company is redesigning food at the molecular and the agricultural scale—and why.
Lifestyle
Golden Rice and Glow-In-The-Dark Jello: Imagining the Future of Food Design
How should we make sure that our food is being redesigned for good, rather than just for profit?
Lifestyle
Does Folding Test Tube Meat Make it More Appetizing?
What can tomorrow's chefs borrow from origami to make in-vitro meat more acceptable to consumers?
Education
Slate's Classroom of the Future
The online magazine announces the winner of its contest to re-imagine where learning takes place.
Education
As if Your Life Depends on It
Our lives depend on improving our education and health. Why aren't we acting like it?
The Community Board
Understanding the Future
I had a conversation today with www.gerryhassan.com about he might conduct a local survey about how people understand the future and their...
The Community Board
A 6 Year Olds Vision of the Future
Last night, a 6 year old friend read me her school speech on the future for her year 1 class. It really moved me so I thought I would share it...
