2031: A Future WorlD

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The year is 2031. You’re part-human, part-cyborg; the groceries you pay for with cryptocurrency are delivered to your kitchen by drones; an artificial womb is growing your firstborn from zygote to full term, and it’s hot. It’s really fucking hot – thanks to the blistering, devastating reality of climate change.

A Future World is Dazed Media’s science-meets-pop culture platform, and this report is a comprehensive exploration of the factors shaping culture and society, and how these will evolve over the next decade, compiled from the opinions of experts and thought-leaders in the fields of music, art, technology, education, activism, fashion.



Built on insights from thousands of young Dazed readers and global multidisciplinary experts, A Future World addresses big questions around climate change, capitalism, identity, mental health and innovation.




“The system has to break, or it will have to evolve in quite a radical way to no longer be based on linear and exhaustive processes, but based on circular and regenerative processes. ‘Smart cities’ are a potential solution to our inevitable fate, which will utilise AI to safeguard the needs of the people, animals, and nature simultaneously to meet the demands of the population and preserve biodiversity”.

Jack Self

Writer, Architect, and Founder of Real Foundation