Inter-galactic carriers are no longer required, thank you. The story is not about life on Mars, but about trying to make life on Earth a little better. This means that the future shirt on your back will probably look a lot like the one hanging in your closet today. The parameters of what materials to use are evolving. Guangdong-born New Yorker Vivienne Tam has already used treated paper to make perfectly wearable clothes.
Paper is interesting because it's light and cool and actually more durable than cotton.
Plugged-in fashion at its most electrifying. The interface between the man-made and the natural is shaping architecture. The work of Japan's Kurokawa Kisho offers a glimpse of what is ahead. In his masterplan for Astana, the new capital of Kazakhstan, Kurokawa envisions a city protected from the sandstorms and flooding common to the area by a wall of trees and an artificial lake. He used a similar approach with the Kuala Lumpur International Airport at Sepang.