Julie Feldthaus
Catrine Kooyman
Wang Jiaqi

Future newspaper on an entertainment based society

Imagine hundred years in the future.

Written language has ceased to exist and our daily fixture is entertainment. Three issues of the fictional newspaper "Mirror Today" covers important events of politics, science, and culture. Over a century time span the newspaper serves a society evolving to become very different from the one we know today.

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What if the most important aspect of society in the future was entertainment? How would a newspaper cover important events of politics, science and culture throughout the next hundred years?

Question:

Exhibition prototypes

timeline

we have designed three newspapers. Scroll right to see them and our suggestion for the exhibition.

YEAR: 2034

YEAR: 2084

YEAR: 2114

(click on the paper to watch inside)

Covering

It will be displayed at the museum like this:

Growing entertainment based society

Young people bored of politics

Medical break throughs

Cap between young and old increasing

War of ressources

Overpopulation

Regroupment of society

Political campaign, case candidate: "Sophie"

(Based on "The Natural Election", where we imagine how future democracy will look. Take a look

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Folders with the timeline and explanations will be handed out

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(click on pill to se how it works)

Based on

Scenario: The trending use of online visual communication is just the start of a journey towards a society completely stripped of all written language. Knowledge about the ancient alphabet is reserved for programmers, scientist and other specialists. The entertainment business is ever-growing and becomes a permanent fixture in our daily lives. Medical science has developed a method of regrowing body- and brain-tissue, generating a larger aging portion of the population, giving the preferences of the old population more weight. Young people struggles to affect politics and withdraws to a careless lifestyle with entertainment and partying. As the known fields containing fossil fuels are being emptied, conflicts arise over the last bits and pieces. As a result of the war of resources we see a regroupment, rearranged in smaller self-sufficient societies using the resources of their area. Young people are a resource in the new world, but don't see politics as entertaining, thus share no interest in it. To meet the consumers demand AND benefit the society, the gameshow-election-model is created.