Filtering of Future Scenario Ideas

As I mentioned in the previous post, a process of filtering through the copious and varied scenarios put forth was necessary to attain the most logical and believable ones to include in our presentation. As our Paddington site exists; in a suburban context - in a regional context - in a state context - in a national context - and also in a world context - it was necessary therefore to have a heirarchy of possible scenarios for each of these contexts. I'm not saying that the scenarios and images listed below all exist simultaneously (although some could), I'm merely suggesting that all of these scenarios are possible and are tailored to each degree of Context.

World

Service Robots

Extreme Weather

Sea Level Rise

 National

Future Transport

Over Population

Renewable Energy Sources

 State

Food Factories

Effect of Industry on Water-ways

Unemployment

 Regional

Physical demands of the Virtual

Higher Density Living

Urban Sprawl

 Image References

Service Robots

#1 - http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/month/2005/20050913-01.html

#2 - http://www.chilloutpoint.com/featured/human-and-robots-visions-of-the-future.html

#3 - http://www.hobby.net.au/flex/future-robots/1194/1

Sea Level Rise

#1 - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/8044199/Postcards-from-the-future-illustrators-imagine-how-London-could-be-affected-by-climate-change.html

#2 - http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/environmental-issues/sea-level-rise-of-up-to-1-6-meters-projected-for-2100/

#3 - http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=183565

Extreme Weather Events

#1 - http://www.startribune.com/printarticle/?id=163546386

#2 - http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-09/01/content_6073082.htm

#3 - http://balaji-m-p.blogspot.com.au/2011/05/earthquake.html

Future Transport

#1 - http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/future-transportation#!/photos/102361/1

#2 - http://inhabitat.com/transportation/page/70/

#3 - http://rohantime.com/14583/how-can-we-improve-transport-in-britain/

Over-Population

#1 - http://www.triplepundit.com/2010/07/overpopulation-fred-pearce/

#2 - http://caridalys.wordpress.com/category/overpopulation/

#3 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpopulation

Renewable Energy Sources

#1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy

#2 - http://www.worldculturepictorial.com/blog/content/pelamis-portugal-world-first-most-ambitious-working-wave-farm-now-generating-electricity-1500-homes

#3 - http://renewables-energy.net/2011/06/29/sources-of-renewable-energy/

Food Factories

#1 - http://panacea-bocaf.org/verticalfarming.htm

#2 - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/08/photogalleries/future-fish-farms-pictures/index.html

#3 - http://kritismonde.blogspot.com.au/2011/04/vertical-farming-could-it-be-future-of.html

Future of our Water-ways

#1 - http://inhabitat.com/new-study-suggests-pacific-ocean-is-polluted-with-coffee/

#2 & #3 - http://se2pollutants.blogspot.com.au/2010/03/post-1-two-classifications-of-water.html

Unemployment

#1 - http://www.thehealthculture.com/2010/10/the-dismal-future-of-unemployment/

#2 - http://www.google.com.au/imgres?q=future+unemployment+due+to+robots

#3 - http://politicalfun.blogspot.com.au/2009/02/unemployment-cartoon.html

Urban Sprawl

#1 - http://designbuildsource.com.au/australia-fights-urban-sprawl

#2 - http://agmetalminer.com/2011/01/14/the-growth-of-cities-how-urban-sprawl-in-china-and-india-moves-markets/

#3 - http://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/index.cfm?event=site.image.detail&id=1541

Physical of the Virtual

#1 - http://www.archi-europe.com/news-1127-arup-unveils-the-worlds-most-sustainable-broadcast.html

#2 - http://www.epicycle.org.uk/weblog/2005/jun-2005.htm

#3 - http://www.omnispace.org/virtual_reality/

Higher Density Living

#1 - http://www.svingel.info/high-density-living-at-carlsberg/

#2 - http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showthread.php/10480-Families-in-Toronto

#3 - http://www.aiany.org/eOCULUS/newsletter/?p=904