Ever been to a place where you can send email via live snails, feel virtual cockroaches crawling on your arm, or enter a giant-sized 3D ants colony? Welcome to SIGGRAPH 2008!

The QCA are currently redeveloping GCSEs in ICT which will have a massive impact on the way ICT is taught and thought about in schools over the next decade.

Having permission to tell stories about possible futures – especially stories created around shared prompts – enables the sharing of ideals, aims and aspirations that can lead to better understanding of nearer term actions. But there is particular value in longer term futures work (such as the Beyond Current Horizons programme) in helping to create richer short term strategies for change.