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    On the Future / In Stories: Volume 1: Megatrends
    On the Future / In Stories: Volume 1: Megatrends
    On the Future / In Stories: Volume 1: Megatrends
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    As enlightened and curious people, the future interests us. In the best case, we would like to know more about it; in the worst, we would like to change it today. Both do not work. But what we can do is to think about the future, namely in stories. Fifteen lecturers and researchers of the Future Laboratory CreaLab of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts have therefore decided to describe in the form of short stories how the future might look like.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks on Demand
    Release dateMar 6, 2017
    ISBN9783743182981
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