LOOKING AT OUR FUTURE
This is an event which I had spoken to a few people about? If they had seen it their response was «bof» - or in other words, not really interesting. Fortunately we do not stop at negative or unenthusiastic replies when the content could be interesting for us. Indeed it was. The EDF Foundation (our main energy supplier) sets up quite a few fascinating events aimed «at the future». Not so long ago many of these projects would have been described as «laughable» but today many of them are moving towards materialisation while still holding onto the promise of imagination and design in shaping our collective futures. They are ambitious and the ideas are full of optimism. Too often I have heard «it’s too new, it wont work. He or she was before his/her time»....Now intuition is at work and insight as well. In many of cases the projects are the results of scientific collaboration. Some of the work is radical, perhaps not quite believable but I admire this way of thinking as we need it if we ar