All cards · October 23, 2026 · from the year 2046
Some breakthroughs fit in a lunchbox.
A tropical fruit market · 2046 (20 years ahead) · Food resilience · Cut-paper collage, ultramarine and banana yellow
Why this card
The Guardian reports on breeding research that could help protect Cavendish bananas against disease and climate pressures. Twenty years allows time for promising techniques to become tested varieties and reach growers. The picture imagines the payoff as something ordinary: bananas still making their way from a well-stocked market into a child's lunchbox.