Popular culture- survey

Popular culture

I asked various people I know what they thought about possible new trends.
Thoughts on recent trends/possible new trends from conversations with family and friends.

From an eleven year old girl:

“What is a trend?”.  “A new thing that many people start to do”.

Everyone goes to live on a spacecraft because they’re bored with earth

Inventing CV’s and it works

Big shopping trip and go home and can’t afford to (buy food to) eat

Kid’s so poor, they have no clothes except their school uniform

The governments and presidents start putting people down, due to too much population

Children take over – not that that’s a change!

Racism gets worse

Popular apps are: Keek, Whattsapp, tumbler, intagram, Twitter, Facebook, Google talk, Facebook, vine, Skype, MSN, messenger

From her dad

New trends from America

Celebrating Halloween

Children having sleepovers

Kid’s “growing up” earlier

More anti-immigrant feeling/campaigns

Greater separation between rich and poor

1%- Occupy

Online activism- Aavaz, Compass 360

Crowd- funding

Online culture (you-tube)

Online news (Twitter)

The rise of the TV talent show- Simon Cowell – X-Factor

Anti-consumerism, caused by economic conditions

Patching – people begin to transform broken things into useful things , including patching clothes (cupboard to chair)

Staycation- not travelling abroad for holidays

Fuel poverty

People less social- always playing with hand held devices

More homelessness, street people

Apathy- in the face of street crime, ignore someone who gets ill on the street

Alienation- from others’ problems

-         Less concerned with (anti-) social behaviour)

Neighbourliness/community- people don’t go to ask their neighbour for help

Anti-immigrant policies and the media

Anti-poor, anti-disabled policies

Harder to find a job –mass unemployment

Youth unemployment

NEETs Neither in employment, education or training

ASBOs- anti-social behaviour order

Exclusion- excluded from school

-excluded generally (from society)

- excluded from the economy

From a retired builder and sailor (Steve)

Gentrification

Artists moving to an area lead to gentrification

Ipad art

3D printers

Privacy

Should anyone have a private life?

Should there be anything such as privacy in the modern world?

Communication

The tidal wave of information

Understandably, people switch off

Flaunting poverty

From a walking professional and artist (Andrew)

The super rich use robots for everyday tasks

The rest of us will meet the rich’s robots on the street

3D printers will change….

From a science reporter (Stephen Battersby)

You could think about how people might get creative with flood-proof architecture. Climate change means flooding will become more common as the years roll by, and it's always struck me that today's houses are especially delicate about water - two feet of water in your ground floor for 24 hours, and the house is uninhabitable for a year. New houses might just be on stilts, but perhaps there are better ways of doing it...  and what could you do to make existing houses floodproof? - Plasticised decor - an entire ground-floor done out as wet rooms?

Or... I'm not sure if this is a bit heavy, but at some point when the AI gets good enough people are going  to start procreating in a new way, by generating intelligent avatars online; versions of themselves or idealised versions of themselves or entirely new personalities.