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150-Strong: A Pathway to a Different Future – Serialisation Part 3
150-Strong: A Pathway to a Different Future – Serialisation Part 3 “The more laws and commands there are, the more thieves and robbers there will be.” Lao Tzu Information leaked in the Panama Papers about the use of tax havens certainly supports this statement! Under the cover of the law thieves and robbers have been […]
Where Does the Future Lie?
Where Does the Future Lie? QUESTION: Are you more worried about a 1984 esque future or A Brave New World esque future? ANSWER: Unfortunately, the two go hand in hand. George Orwell simply took the past and laid out what government ALWAYS gravitates toward – total control. We live in a delusion with our brains filled with […]
Courtney White’s THE AGE OF CONSQUENCES: A Chronicle of Concern and Hope
Courtney White’s THE AGE OF CONSQUENCES: A Chronicle of Concern and Hope (Counterpoint Press, January 2015, 261 pages, $21.99) Reviewed by Frank Kaminski “I consider myself to be a professional daydreamer,” reads the opening line of Courtney White’s Internet bio page. And indeed, White–a fine, imaginative thinker and writer who happens to be related to the […]
“The Future” as a sales pitch
“The Future” as a sales pitch No one can know the future. But it turns out we can invent a place called “The Future” and invite people to inhabit it. In order to inhabit “The Future”–which is really just an enactment of our ideas about the future–you need the right accessories. For starters you’ll need the basics: the latest […]
Think Another Crash Is “Impossible”? Think Again
Think Another Crash Is “Impossible”? Think Again The confidence that risk can be quantified and mitigated is misplaced. If there are limits on what we can know of the future–and clearly there are–this sets limits on our ability to quantify and mitigate risk. Longtime correspondent Lew G. submitted this thought-provoking riff on the system’s intrinsic capacity […]
Retrotopia: Back To What Worked
Retrotopia: Back To What Worked This is the fifteenth installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Our narrator visits another school, catches the flu, and has his first encounter with the Lakeland Republic’s health care system… *********** I made some phone calls […]
The Pentagon’s secret pre-crime program to know your thoughts, predict your future
The Pentagon’s secret pre-crime program to know your thoughts, predict your future US military contractors are mining social media to influence your ‘cognitive behavior’ when you get angry at the state The US Department of Defense (DoD) wants contractors to mine your social media posts to develop new ways for the US government to infer […]
Retrotopia: Lines of Separation
Retrotopia: Lines of Separation This is the fourteenth installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Our narrator returns from his trip to a tier one county full of doubts about the Lakeland Republic’s prospects, and has those at once challenged and sharpened […]
Retrotopia: Learning Lessons
Retrotopia: Learning Lessons This is the thirteennth installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Our narrator finishes up his trip to a tier one county, and starts to notice ways in which the Lakeland Republic has gone neither forwards nor backwards, but […]
Energy round-up: six predictions for 2016
Energy round-up: six predictions for 2016 Photo credit: James Russell 2015 proved to be an interesting year for energy and climate issues both globally and in the UK. Will 2016 hold more of the same? Forecasting is a dangerous business, but here are six predictions you should keep an eye on. 1) The showdown on oil prices between […]
2016 Economic Predictions: Year of the Epocalypse
2016 Economic Predictions: Year of the Epocalypse An economic apocalypse upon us. My 2016 economic predictions provide the full explanation as to why 2016 will be the year of the Epocalypse — a word that encompasses the roots “economic, epoch, collapse” and “apocalypse.” I needed a word big enough to describe all that is about to befall the world in 2016. When you […]
Down the Ratholes of the Future
Down the Ratholes of the Future The new year now upon us has brought out the usual quota of predictions about what 2016 has in store, and I propose as usual to make my own contribution to that theme. I’ve noted more than once in the past that people who make predictions about the future really […]
Retrotopia: Neglected Technologies
Retrotopia: Neglected Technologies This is the twelfth installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Our narrator attends the Lakeland Republic’s annual drone shoot, and finds out that not all technological innovations start out from the current state of the art… *********** A […]
How to change the world in 3 easy steps
How to change the world in 3 easy steps I often get asked by people about what they can do to change things, to change the world, when each of us is just one person, in the face of so much that we cannot even hope to control or influence. What can we do? Why […]
