This project is fully operational, but had to start as a rigorous speculative design process – more sci-fi than real world. Until it wasn't. It is representative of the kind of project that will …
Speculative Design: “Virtual Singapore” is a Massive, Fully Functional Digital Twin of the Asian City-State
https://youtu.be/y8cXBSI6o44 The hype around the metaverse may have waned, but that does not mean it is not going to happen. The Digital Twin "market", while still nascent, is the precursor to …
Speculative Design: In 2026, ClearSpace-1 Will Rendezvous, Capture, and Remove a Piece of Space Debris
While technically in production and heading towards operations, this project still had to start as a speculative design process - more sci-fi than concrete. It is representative of the kind of …
Speculative Design: The Decade of the Ocean and the First Liquid Hydrogen-powered Autonomous Vessel
A U.K. Based consortium has been awarded a $6.46 million government grant to build the world's first liquid hydrogen-powered autonomous vessel and its allied infrastructure, a press release said. The …
Speculative Design: Welcome to Kaspersky’s Earth 2050
Featured Image Source: DeMagSign About the OODA Loop Speculative Design Series "From cities and transport to food and wearables, design fiction spawns projects that are not only food for our dreams …
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Speculative Design: Relativity Space’s Fully Reusable, 3D Printed Rocket
Featured Image Source: 3D Printing Media Network Additive manufacturing is an exponential technology that will disrupt many industry verticals, including the future of the commercial space …
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Speculative Design: DARPA’s Airborne Optical Energy Relays
Featured Image Source: DARPA - CAPTION: Artist's concept for energy web relay platform It was inevitable that one (if not a few) posts in our ongoing Speculative Design series would consider a …
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Speculative Design: U.S. Army Experimental CubeSats (Miniaturized Satellites)
Feature Image Source: Breaking Defense https://youtu.be/HZMiJ_Q47qk This case study is a lot more "experimental/operational" than previous posts in our ongoing Speculative Design series - with …
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Speculative Design: The Los Angeles-based Urban Air Mobility Partnership
Featured Image Source: Skyroad Partners The Urban Air Mobility Partnership: A first-in-the-nation public-private partnership to advance awareness of urban air mobility (UAM) in L.A. (Source: …
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Speculative Design: A Nuclear-Powered Sky Hotel
Featured Image Source: Forbes https://youtu.be/ZrodDBJdGuo The Nuclear-Powered Sky Hotel is the intersection of: Speculative Design, "a design practice that is concerned with future design …
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