"I wanted a space that was futuristic but with some knowledge of history that was also inviting and feminine," said Ms. Balahoutis, a self-taught perfumer.
They are held at the city's eight Knowledge Clouds, futuristic-looking buildings which provide free computer and library access across Rio's poorer northern and western zones, and which are owned and run by the city council.
But any futuristic forecasting system that integrates knowledge from basic biology to social psychology would still only produce predictive models with large margins of error.
Fahrenheit 451 tells the story of Montag, a fireman in a futuristic oppressive state where books are burned, knowledge and imagination destroyed, and the firemen start fires rather than put them out.
This results in some of the knowledge gaps being speculative and futuristic and based on the latest research activity.
Despite of a clear futuristic leaning displayed in some buildings like the Knowledge Centre covered by a spherical roof with solar panels (Online Resource 7) and the stainless steel Wind Tower for cooling, modelled on traditional building practices (Online Resource 8), it resembles a socio-spatial experience of the past with small squares, exclusive pedestrian traffic and narrow streets.
Since the clues are based on the creator's obsessive knowledge of 1980s trivia and gaming culture, this futuristic pursuit is of course also an exercise in nostalgia, packed with pop-cultural references from Space Invaders to John Hughes movies.
It is between the established system and the new forms of wealth rising up to displace it all the entrenched knowledge of the past and the insurrections of futuristic enterprise and invention.
Save the day is an interactive workshop designed to introduce key stage 3 pupils to coding and software engineering – it includes a futuristic product design challenge and sstudents get to use their STEM knowledge and problem solving abilities to crack codes.
He was just one man, of course – we couldn't extrapolate from this that all inventors and entrepreneurs are driven by the thrill of building communal expertise, or seek to build a socialist utopia of the mind in which knowledge moves freely between connected individuals, creating a kind of futuristic super brain.
