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As a futurist working for engineering consultancy Aurecon, Noriko Wynn spends her days thinking about everything from construction techniques and building design to the future of cities and what Australia’s response to the coronavirus pandemic tells us about the nation’s preparedness to embrace change.
“I look at economic, social, political and technological changes,” Wynn says. “Those things tend to interact.”
If you think the genomic testing of buildings, the use of moss to determine air quality and office towers where the mail room is on the top floor sound fanciful, think again.
Here are some of Wynn’s predictions for the future.
When thinking about how long
humans, Homo sapiens, have existed, you can use this proxy:
if you consider the universe s total age – from the big
bang until today – is represented by the length of your
forearm, human existence takes up just the tip of your
fingernail. So what? you might ask. It
might seem either overwhelming or irrelevant. But, if we
want to think about the future, we have to understand the
trajectories and patterns in our past.
We futurists
constantly ask ourselves, are there cycles, processes or
repetitive patterns that can help inform where we might be
going? How have past technological disruptions changed
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