Future Design looks at the very cutting edge of technology and its impact on everyday life, from radical projections for shaping the planet over the next thousand years to changes taking place right on the end of your street tomorrow. Examining real objects including a DNA sequencer, the Facebook drone, a 3D printer that works in space, and UC Berkeley's Laundry Robot, this book explores the fears, hopes, and dreams embedded in each, the designers motivated to create them, and the consumers using or avoiding them.
Published to accompany a major exhibition at the V&A in London, experts from different fields examine and debate diverging paths of future development in relation to the body, the home, the everyday, the city, governance, the planet, the universe, and the afterlife.
