Ideas worth spreading

Re-imagine the future

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Angela Oguntala |

TEDxCopenhagen

• April 2016

From flying cars to lab-grown food, we love thinking about what delights the future will bring. But futurist Angela Oguntala suggests that, in fact, these pop-culture benchmarks create a blinkered vision of the future. In her talk, Oguntala urges us to reach further and push for true innovation.

From flying cars to lab-grown food, we love thinking about what delights the future will bring. But futurist Angela Oguntala suggests that, in fact, these pop-culture benchmarks create a blinkered vision of the future. In her talk, Oguntala urges us to reach further and push for true innovation.

This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxCopenhagen, an independent event.

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Angela Oguntala

Strategic Futurist and Designer

Angela Oguntala works across design and futures studies. She thinks about alternative futures and creates plans for how to reach those desired futures.

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This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxCopenhagen, an independent event.

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