The Future Laboratory

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SXSW 2026: Smaller, Slower, More Human

At SXSW 2026, the festival shifted from tech hype and relentless growth to a focus on human-centred design, community-led culture and products and experiences that prioritise wellbeing, biology and meaningful human connection over scale.

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Culture & Media

The Synthocene Era: Merging Human and Machine Intelligence

As AI redefines our understanding of intelligence, we begin to enter The Synthocene Era, an age in which the lines between what is natural and what is artificial are increasingly blurred – driving humanity into a future when technology will redefine what it means to be human.

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Marketing & Branding

Neutral Culture

Historically, race and gender have been the most divisive markers of identity. And while they are a foundation of mainstream culture, we are beginning to see early adopters and innovators challenge these rigid classifications and replace them with visions of identity that are more personal and nuanced.

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Food & Drink

Bistro In Vitro

A fictional restaurant imagines the future of in-vitro meat.

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Food & Drink

New Biodisruptors

Silicon Valley investors are pouring money into biotechnology as the sector moves beyond medicine into consumer and lifestyle applications.

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Retail

The Age of the Long Near: Whole-system Thinking preview

London – LS:N Global introduces Whole-system Thinking, the last of our three trends that we will present at our Spring/Summer 2015 Trend Briefing, The Age of the Long Near.

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Design

Weed in: Artist creates dyes from invasive species

Brooklyn, New York – Invasive Pigments is a new exhibit that uses dyes from invasive plants as a medium to explore the interplay between humanity and ecology.