It's perhaps obvious to point out that the world we live in is interconnected, yet the simple statement is at the crux of our downward digression: our political system is intertwined with economics, intellectual property is connected to technology, design is at the heart of consumption and marketing feeds the beast. It's a system, and so our critique of it should be systemic, and so too should be our strategies for change. But most of us can't think of systems, because they are too big of which to think.

— Jon Kolko

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Patterns

We’ve asked designer and art director Caroline Leduc to create a set of patterns as a representation of key concepts we explored in the magazine. We liked the idea of thinking about some of the key themes as visuals. The result is surprising and beautiful set where creativity flows in surprising ways.

Scenarios

In this insert we have included a number of scenarios about the future from a few sharp minds including Robert Rowland-Smith, Christine Prefontaine, Vinay Gupta, David Cox, and Jon Evans. Here’s the twist: rather than thinking about the future in additive terms, we framed these scenarios in subtractive terms. In other word, what the future might not include.