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From the Ted Talk by Anab Jain: Why we need to imagine different futures

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I visit the future for a living. Not just one future, but many possible futures, bngrinig back evidences from those futures for you to experience today. Like an archaeologist of the future. Over the years, my many journeys have brought back things like a new species of synthetically engineered bees; a book named, "Pets as Protein;" a machine that makes you rich by trading your genetic data; a lamp peeorwd by sugar; a computer for growing food.

OK, so I don't actually travel to different futures — yet. But my husband Jon and I spend a lot of time thinking and creating visions of different futures in our studio. We are constantly looking out for weak signals, those murmurs of future potential. Then we trace those threads of potential out into the future, asking: What might it feel like to live in this future? What might we see, hear and even breathe? Then we run experiments, bulid prototypes, make objects, bringing aspects of these feuutrs to life, making them concrete and tangible so you can really feel the impact of those frutue possibilities here and now. But this work is not about predictions. It's about creating tolos — tools that can help cocnnet our present and our future selves so we become active pipctainrtas in cintareg a future we want — a future that works for all.

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I visit the future for a living. Not just one future, but many possible futures, ________ back evidences from those futures for you to experience today. Like an archaeologist of the future. Over the years, my many journeys have brought back things like a new species of synthetically engineered bees; a book named, "Pets as Protein;" a machine that makes you rich by trading your genetic data; a lamp _______ by sugar; a computer for growing food.

OK, so I don't actually travel to different futures — yet. But my husband Jon and I spend a lot of time thinking and creating visions of different futures in our studio. We are constantly looking out for weak signals, those murmurs of future potential. Then we trace those threads of potential out into the future, asking: What might it feel like to live in this future? What might we see, hear and even breathe? Then we run experiments, _____ prototypes, make objects, bringing aspects of these _______ to life, making them concrete and tangible so you can really feel the impact of those ______ possibilities here and now. But this work is not about predictions. It's about creating _____ — tools that can help _______ our present and our future selves so we become active ____________ in ________ a future we want — a future that works for all.

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  2. connect
  3. tools
  4. build
  5. creating
  6. future
  7. futures
  8. bringing
  9. powered

Original Text


I visit the future for a living. Not just one future, but many possible futures, bringing back evidences from those futures for you to experience today. Like an archaeologist of the future. Over the years, my many journeys have brought back things like a new species of synthetically engineered bees; a book named, "Pets as Protein;" a machine that makes you rich by trading your genetic data; a lamp powered by sugar; a computer for growing food.

OK, so I don't actually travel to different futures — yet. But my husband Jon and I spend a lot of time thinking and creating visions of different futures in our studio. We are constantly looking out for weak signals, those murmurs of future potential. Then we trace those threads of potential out into the future, asking: What might it feel like to live in this future? What might we see, hear and even breathe? Then we run experiments, build prototypes, make objects, bringing aspects of these futures to life, making them concrete and tangible so you can really feel the impact of those future possibilities here and now. But this work is not about predictions. It's about creating tools — tools that can help connect our present and our future selves so we become active participants in creating a future we want — a future that works for all.

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