IMAGINING TOMORROW: BUSINESS FUTURES | 41 OCTOBER 1, 2023 Cultural attitudes toward workplace wearables Abel also puts those issues in a much larger context. began to shift during the 2020 United States He notes that policy measures, like the Employee presidential election campaign, suggests Abiodum. Family Flexibility Care Act, which gives workers “Both candidates were in their 70s, and both agreed expanded rights to take time off to arrange care for to wear EEG devices and other fitness monitors elderly relatives as well as to look after their children, and make the data publicly available, to prove “are only scratching the surface of what we need to voters that they weren’t too old for the job.” to think about. There’s: Otto Abel, the student going to work at New • Urban planning—how can we make housing Social Contract, agrees that the 2020 campaign work for four or five generations living in the put several aging-related issues onto the public same place? agenda. He notes that life used to be viewed as • How can we afford pensions, Social Security separate stages: education, work, retirement. and Medicare? But working lives have become more fluid, he says. “Now people pre-retire, working part-time • Credible projections that global population for a decade or two. They un-retire. And during could reach 14 billion: Can the world support the campaign, people talked much more about that many people? these issues.” • And, now that good health in old age is more a matter of personal responsibility for lifestyle than getting lucky with your genes, how should healthcare policy reflect that?” THE WORLD OF REDEREDESIGSIGNNIINNGG THE IMAGINATION THE AGE OF “TECHNO-POLITICS” LILIFEFE ECONOMY (IN)SECURITY