Jeffrey Brown:

Divided into 11 sections, the exhibit explores innovative ideas, often mixing high tech with the natural world, textiles made of seaweed, artificial organ implants, even a robotic baby feeder.

It offers hope, inspires fear, and asks ethical questions about the choices involved.

How will our clothes be made? Who will be watching us? And how might we hide from surveillance? How and what will we eat? That was the focus for Orkan Telhan, an artist and designer at the University of Pennsylvania.

His display, titled Breakfast Before Extinction, offers several futuristic meals that may or may not whet your appetite, 3D-printed pancakes, genetically modified salmon and, strangest of all, steak made from our own blood cells.