Design Fiction: Hypermorgen icons

*Diegetic icons for phenomena that almost exist.

*It’s also nice that the icons belong to an open-source project, which offers them a folk-motif virality they might lack otherwise.

http://thenounproject.com/hypermorgen/

“The icons en detail:

“Slime Mold Computing
Slime mold can not only determine the shortest path through a maze or model optimal railway systems. Scientists from the University of the West of England discovered that Physarum polycephalum slime molds can act as memristors. This means they could be used to create more efficient computer memory.

“Wearables
For some futurists wearables are already half over, soon to be replaced by ingestibles. We think wearables will become interesting in ways we now can´t even imagine.

“Meat Printing
Humans eat about 240 billion kilograms of meat each year. The demand for animal protein has resulted in environmental degradation, cruelty to livestock, and the spread of dangerous diseases. Thiel Foundation just funded Modern Meadow, a company that wants to solve this problem with a new method to print meat with a 3D printer. Will it taste better or worse than Tofurkey?” ….