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The Future Faces of Urban Britain

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This newspaper article written by Sarah Morrison, deals with the future living conditions of the British as imagined by some innovators. It describes ten different people who adapt to the future’s changing trends and lifestyles. Each of us would like to know what the future has in store. This idea of looking ahead into the future is not a new one. Hollywood studios have released a lot of movies dealing with this topic: A country’s future in ten years’ time. In this case, the article describes Britain’s future in ten years’ time after the publishing date. Ten fictional characters living in future London in 2023 are portrayed. The way the writer pictures his characters in the article is on the one hand realistic, but on the other hand, a strange interpretation of future London. The so-called “provocative faces” of future London are ten people who differ a lot and have a certain type of lifestyle. These people have been made up by a ‘coalition of innovators’, who have taken a look at recent trends and data in order to make a sophisticated forecast for the future lives of different people. They have taken a close look at people’s changing lifestyles. The text comes up with a local councillor, originally from Somalia, who runs a community healthcare service. At first, glance this doesn't seem too exciting, but if you look more closely at this specific person, then you may discover some really crucial facts. This man holds an administrative office, where he helps local authorities to communicate with the Islamic community. In his “Plays”- a synonym of leisure time, which is described in the text - he helps to mediate between local authorities and a mosque. Another example of this future lifestyle is the owner of a local restaurant who uses crowdfunding as a financing instrument for his chain of restaurants. According to that ‘coalition of innovators’ there will be a lot of other modern people, who have diffe

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