Brainstorming Ideas for your Report from the Future

Brainstorming Ideas for your Report from the Future

If you are brainstorming topics for your Report from the Future, here are some innovations and current cultural issues you might want to project into a speculative future. Please note that the news articles listed here are not to be used as your scholarly sources, as they are not peer-reviewed research from the library's databases. Rather, these are just brainstorming topics to get you thinking in a certain direction.

Designer babies: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/08/designer-babies-ethical-horror-waiting-to-happen

Internet brain implant: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609232/the-surgeon-who-wants-to-connect-you-to-the-internet-with-a-brain-implant/

Nanotechology: https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-11/7-amazing-ways-nanotechnology-changing-world

Drones: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2018-02-15/why-drones-are-still-future-war

Robot companions: https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/japanese-companies-introduce-new-companion-robots/4240141.html

Transhumanism: http://whatistranshumanism.org/

Income inequality: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/12/us-states-with-the-highest-levels-of-income-inequality.html

Animal extinction: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/05/140529-conservation-science-animals-species-endangered-extinction/

Sea level rise: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/feb/27/scientists-have-detected-an-acceleration-in-sea-level-rise

Automation/Jobs: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/26/jobs-future-automation-robots-skills-creative-health  

Bringing back extinct animals: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/02/16/harvard-scientists-pledge-bring-back-woolly-mammoth-extinction/