Your Life In 2020
April 15th, 2010 11:27am by Jaime MarlandIn an essay for Forbes.com, President Maeda ponders life in 2020. He predicts that technology will disappear so far into the background that its presence will vanish within our collective consciousness. As we become more accustomed to “being connected,” happily, some breathing room will open up for a different conversation about what we want back in our lives.
So if technology disappears further into the background, what will occupy our foreground? President Maeda envisages it will be much more of the humanity we’ve always valued. That by then, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) will finally be regarded as STEAM (with the A standing for Art as a necessary complement to the other areas, if true innovation is to happen). That we’ll witness a return to the integrity of craft, the humanity of authorship, and the rebalancing of our virtual and physical spaces. And that we’ll see a 21st-century renaissance in arts- and design-centered approaches to making things, where you – the individual – will take center stage in culture and commerce.
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