the next wave

Stewart Brand’s Pace Layers model is a curiosity.

David Mindell is an eminent American academic and entrepreneur, and in The New Lunar Society he draws on the group of (mostly) men who forged the industrial revolution in 18th century Britain to try to write about the next industrial revolution in the 21s…

The admirable futures and business writer Art Kleiner has a long post on his Substack outlining what he thinks we already know about the 2030s.

Rob Hopkins, who founded the Transition Towns movement two decades ago, has been a tireless and engaging activist for community-led Transition ever since.

Gill Kernick saw the Grenfell Tower burn in 2017 from the Trellick Tower.

This piece is republished here from an article I wrote recently for Chatham House’s Sustainability Accelerator on The Fizz, an AI-based futures project I’m working on with David Bent and the team at the Accelerator.

The idea of “structures of feeling” was developed by the cultural theorist Raymond Williams during the 1960s and ‘70s.

This is the second of two posts on the AI business here this week.

I have deliberately tried not to write too much about AI, because the signal gets swamped by the noise.

One of the mysteries of the current British Labour government has been its obsession with the party group known as Blue Labour, which espouses a form of social democracy that marries social conservatism with progressive economic policies.