Just back from a week in the UK working on a Technology Futures programme for Innovaro. We assembled a wide range of world experts from around the globe to build a picture of what the world might look like in twenty years time from a technology perspective. In the same room we had people that had just come back from Davos, TED presenters, geneticists, Koyoto negotiators, cold fusion experts and ex-Presidential Advisors.

It generated a range of fascinating and jaw-dropping insights.

I’ll blog these as I churn through my notes over the next few days. In the meantime, here’s one to get you started. It comes from an expert in foresight who is working for one of the worlds largest architectural firms (I cannot name people as we ran the event under Chatham House rules to ensure the discussion was as open as possible).

“We are already constructing buildings that have been designed as Faraday cages.”

Oh, and in the same vein, he also noted that on any average day, “there is two and a half miles of smog over Shanghai.”