The growth of hybrid working following the pandemic led to many suggestions of a fundamental and permanent shift in the demand for offices and their design. Given the long lead…
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No Limits? How will China and Russia’s alliance develop?
Introduction In February 2022 Vladimir Putin flew to Beijing to meet Xi Jinping on the eve of the Winter Olympics. The two leaders announced to the world that they had…
What Is Cutting UK Productivity?
Written by Gill Ringland, Ed Steinmueller & Patricia Lustig, this blog first appeared at the end of June as a Pamphleteer in the Long Finance series, https://www.longfinance.net/news/pamphleteers/what-is-cutting-uk-productivity/ In “Global Risk –…
Flooding London, TRLs, and Need.
The Environment Agency has decided to improve London’s tidal defences by 2050 – 15 years earlier than anticipated. Sea levels are expected to rise by a metre by 2100. And…
Prepare or Prevent: causes and events in futures thinking
There’s been a lot of discussion about the origin of the Covid-19 virus in Wuhan – did it appear in an animal market or did it escape from a laboratory? …
The Information Commissioner and Cortical Stacks
Anyone who has read Richard Morgan’s “Altered Carbon” or seen the TV series based on it will be familiar with the idea of the “cortical stack”, an electronic implant which…