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Self-driving cars, robots that do our jobs and a fridge that compiles your shopping list, orders what you need and has it delivered. We can connect everything with everything, but what is the relationship between people and technology and the impact on interpersonal relations? Designs that look to the future with the knowledge of today. It's a marvellous world.

Afdeling Buitengewone Zaken (Department of Extraordinary Things) looks for ways to enable innovative, technological systems to occur in people's everyday environments. It tackles the dangers associated with the Internet of Things in its IoT manifesto. This contains 10 guidelines for responsible design.

Pauline van Dongen researches the human body in relation to its environment. She is fascinated by concepts of change, movement, energy and perception, because she believes the future of fashion is rooted in its fundamental principles of dynamism and change.

David Lemereis is a video columnist at Bright and sees himself not as a futurologist, but as a ScienceFact watcher. He follows the latest scientific and technological developments closely. According to David, the future is not tomorrow. The Future is Now!

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