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Letters to the editor - Exploring the future

Your thoughts and contest entries.
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A new seat of power

The truth of how a toilet came to be cemented into place in front of Parliament House on North Terrace on Prosh Day, 7 August 1970 is revealed.
Museum of the future

Foresight as a collective responsibility is an ethos embraced by future-focused museum, MOD.
Casting the runes

Since antiquity, humans have sought to foretell the future – from casting runes to reading entrails. Now, two prominent alumni futurists tell Lumen, the future is ours to imagine and create.
AI and our University

Artificial intelligence is a main topic of conversation across our University community — at our Festival of Learning and Teaching, in our AI Community of Practice, and in our working groups that are building Adelaide University.
The future and AI

We shared your concerns with AI with academics from both the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia to help clarify and respond to your concerns.
University net zero

The University of Adelaide is proud to announce that we have achieved net zero emissions across our directly controlled operations, fulfilling a core commitment of our Here for good Sustainability Strategy.
Exploring the future

In this issue of Lumen, we investigate the future. Artificial intelligence. Groundbreaking research helping captive creatures. The future of death. Plus, noted author and alum Peter Goldsworthy writes exclusively for us.
A matter of life or death

Life is short. Three words used widely as a call to action to live large and unashamedly take opportunities. It’s also a statement of fact, and for researchers, a never-ending challenge to find new ways to push healthy boundaries at both ends of human life.
The music between the notes

Anna Goldsworthy writes for Lumen on how an ageing metronome still links her to her past.