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The Guide's future issue

  • Nike Mag 2016 press publicity image

    How well did the pop culture of the past predict the future?

    Space travel, totalitarianism and self-lacing trainers – what the films, TV shows, songs and books of yore got right. And also very wrong
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    The future of pop culture: robot performers, an avatar Drake and a Kanye West superstore

    AI, VR and smartphones are changing the way we consume culture, but what comes next? From film to visual arts, we explore entertainment’s new frontiers
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    The Guide cover

    15 October 2016
  • Ahir Shah

    'Brexit was just the beginning': comedian Ahir Shah meets his future self

    The standup’s latest show ponders democracy and technology, but what will the world look like in years to come? He asks the older him
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    Modern Toss

    Set ray-guns to stun: it’s the Guide’s Future Issue!
  • 2016 Summer TCA Getty Images Portrait Studio<br>BEVERLY HILLS, CA - JULY 27: Charlie Brooker the creator of Netflix’s ‘Black Mirror’ poses for a portrait during the 2016 Television Critics Association Summer Tour at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 27, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Maarten de Boer/Getty Images Portrait)

    Charlie Brooker: ‘The more horrible an idea, the funnier I find it’

  • Blackout illustration by Leon Sadler

    Dancing in the dark: the growing trend of gigs with the lights off

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