What The Future

IDENTITY

Identity

As life becomes more complex, people are looking for more control in how they define, express and reflect their identity. In this What the Future: Identity issue, we reveal which forces inf...

How what you wear reveals your true identity

How do we express our identities? According to the Ipsos Future of Identity survey, fashion and appearance fall below foundational factors such as how we treat others. Hollywood costume des...

How can entertainment better reflect all of us?

The Annenberg Inclusion Initiative is a global think tank at the University of Southern California that studies inclusion in all forms of entertainment. Program Director Katherine Pieper ex...

Will virtual spaces be safe places to express our identities?

Will 3D-virtual communities and the metaverse lead to more tightly defined social bubbles? Or will they allow us to connect with people who we wouldn’t be able to meet? Sébastien Borget, wh...

Will we have different identities in virtual spaces?

In virtual spaces we are able to craft digital representations of ourselves as avatars. But will we want to make an avatar for every platform we use? Timmu Tõke founded Ready Player Me to c...

Why multiple identities are closer than you think

Identities are complex to form, hard to define and increasingly easier to steal and fake. Author Tracey Follows explains how will we define ourselves and what happens to our legacy identiti...

How where we live shapes who we are

People seem to be isolating themselves into community bubbles of thought and ideas in media, online and at home. Journalist Dante Chinni analyzes the data and reports on the ground about ho...