Chris Sanderson of London’s The Future Laboratory presents a lecture on ‘Designing our future selves: How life in the 21st century is re-modelling what it means to be human’.

Technology doesn’t transform society; society transforms itself, using technology. This insight informs a whistle-stop 30-minute journey into the new social mores and trends that are highlighting how the tech-obsessed 21st-century citizen is redesigning expectations around ownership, sharing, a sense of self and an obligation to society in this me-focused era of selfies, photobombs, constant comment, continuous partial attention, convergence and the internet of things.