#futurecasting

[otterofthemany]

new msn is teaching me that brennan is actually my ideal physical form. i want to become him corporeally when i grow up

[noosphe-re]

PPPP, illustration by Dunne & Raby (Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming, by Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby)

[tarottchotchkes]

Probably the oldest joke in the world.....

[bowyer35]

What kind of twisted beliefs could people in 2044 have about who Mark Scout was in 2020?

Kier reached down through the ether and chose Mark Scout

Frolic made Mark Scout Herdmaster 🐐

Helly's fire 🔥 of Kier consumed Mark Scout, but like a phoenix, he rose up

Mark Scout was sacrificed to spare Emile

Cold Harbor was actually successful, and Mark Scout + Helly was the result

A Scout ancestor was always an Eagan manservant throughout all of time

Mark Scout was enabled by Lumon to use MDR as a way to see all possible outcomes

Helly gave birth to Hanna Scout, and she was filled with the cunning of Dieter

Mark Scout was a secret 5th Temper the entire time

Voting ended onApr 29, 2025

[kctideasprototyping]

Free Writing

I opened the fridge and checked it’s contents: last night’s party leftover pizza, two apples, an unwrapped chocolate bar and a half eaten jar of peanut butter. Honestly, this is as good as it’s gonna get. I’m a college student, what did you expect? I settled for the pizza. Plopping one in the microwave, I watched the pizza’s cheese start to ooze with life once more, the pepperoni turning a slight brown and the crust expanding and bubbling. Simultaneously, I can hear hints of the night before. I start to smile, craving the memory. The moment the microwave door opened, the hot smoke filled my small dorm room. I took a bite and I was back. The cheers, laughter, beer bottles clinking, it all sounded crystal clear. This is why party food is the best kind of food, I thought as I munched down on the second bite.

[kctideasprototyping]

Evolution Timeline

[kctideasprototyping]

Product Sketch 

In response to the feedback received last class, I started brainstorming ideas that can connect my concept to an actual product. Therefore, I came up with this reusable utensils box set that also acts as a speaker. This box would be small and light enough to slip into pockets, therefore making it portable for anyone to carry anywhere. In order to fit into a small box, the utensils will be foldable. 

The top cover of this box would act as the speaker. This speaker would be able to scan QR codes (in which the playlists/music will be linked to), or alternatively will have bluetooth connection to enable users to connect the speaker to their phone if users have their own special playlists on their phone. 

In my imagined future, sound and will be a necessity of food and eating. Through this device, users are able to listen to audio/soundtracks anywhere, even when they’re moving around and eating outside. 

[kctideasprototyping]

Framing Story & Message

What ideas are you challenging/questioning?

I’ve decided that I want to focus on the future of food, specifically the how sounds and our neurology changes the way we taste food. Through this idea, I want to challenge the conventional thinking that food just uses taste and sight, but it can also involve even sound. 

How does your future feel? What does it look like? How do people interact?

In this future, restaurants would be playing specific music in order to let their food tastes better, people could make specific playlists to listen to whilst eating a certain type of food. Food will be more exciting and creative. People would place more importance on not only what they eat, but also how they eat. 

What’s unexpected about the future? What’s the same?

There would probably be many more kinds of ultra-processed and genetically modified foods, however unlike before where these foods were considered unhealthy like potato chips and soda, the future of processed foods may be advertised as “healthy”, such as many more plant-based meats, increasing the nutrition in food through science, etc. 

What’s the problem your object solves? Or creates?

By paying more attention to your senses when eating, perhaps more people would care about the way they eat their food, which may lead them to start caring more about what they eat - which is something extremely important not just as on an individual level, but as a society and for the rest of the world. 

This could potentially create problems, in a more extreme sense, manipulation of tastes. Firms may be able to make their food taste better through sound, even though they don’t actually taste very good or not good for people. 

What details will you include? What details will you omit?

Another potential area of food that I can incorporate into this project is also other ‘futuristic’ foods such as high protein insects and algae. However, I’m not sure this will work out as it might be too much as I think the sounds of food might be something enough for me to explore. 

Inspiration: 

https://www.prescouter.com/2018/05/the-future-of-food-what-will-we-be-eating-in-20-years/#:~:text=For%20food%20security%20purposes%2C%20insect,of%20high%2Dprotein%20food%20products.

https://thedieline.com/blog/2017/7/10/sound-bites/?

https://qz.com/871605/sonic-season-changing-taste-with-sound/