Guatemalan homesteaders and a Michigan contractor are riding a wave that could change how our lives are wired.
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Future of Home
Produced by Erik German Maria Villaseñor
What Happens Next is a video exploration of the future from Quartz and Retro Report. What Happens Next is a series of deeply reported short documentaries that examine radical transformations coming to central aspects of life in the near future, through the experience of people already living them. Through the series, we’ll meet technologists building a new means of global exchange; workers taking up revolutionary tools; and farmers preparing for a changing climate.
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What Happens Next
What Happens Next, produced in collaboration by Retro Report and Quartz, is a series of deeply reported short documentaries that examine radical transformations coming to central aspects of life in the near future, through the experience of people already living them out.
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