The Future Laboratory

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Designing for Mutualism

As advanced technologies evolve into agents with memory, intuition and emerging behaviours, designers are exploring how humans and intelligent systems can work together to shape artefacts that capture dreams, perception and serendipity.

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Culture & Media

Foresight Friday: Rose Coffey, senior foresight analyst

Every Friday, we offer an end-of-week wrap-up of the topics, issues, ideas and virals we’re all talking about. This week, senior foresight analyst Rose Coffey explores nostalgia, post-truth and the time economy.

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Technology

Stat: Listening to music beneficial to brain health and dementia prevention

Listening to music could be a simple yet powerful tool in protecting long-term brain health, according to new research from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

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Food & Drink

Stat: UK travellers recreate culinary tourism at home

Following a travel drought, international cuisine is front and centre in the minds of wanderlust-hit British consumers. A UK study by OnePoll on behalf of speciality cooking oils brand U:ME found that more than four in 10 adults travel abroad just for the food, with Italy, Greece and Thailand considered the top culinary destinations.

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Design

This font can improve your memory

A team of researchers have developed Sans Forgetica, a typeface that draws on the principles of cognitive psychology to help readers remember their notes.