Quest for the real thing
Melanie HowardFuture Foundation
Melanie Howard describes how the modern world of illusion and image is driving people to seek a more authentic reality.
The Future Foundation has been monitoring an aspirational trend we call Authentiseeking for more than five years now. Born of a confluence of three other long-term trends in our stable – Ethical Consumerism, Local Preference, and the Simplification of Complexity – this is about a powerful urge that many people feel to get in touch with what they believe is a more 'real' world.
The idea of what constitutes an authentic,...