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…
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EU Joint Research Council – 14 Megatrends
Like many large organisations and consultancies, the EU’s JRC maintains and monitors a list of megatrends. In their case they have identified fourteen in their “Megatrends Hub”. Although mostly these…
Drivers of change – on fast-forward?
We’ve noticed recently how SAMI’s six Drivers of Change seem to be super-charged, on fast-forward. We identified the major areas of change some years ago and still think they are…
Widening Your Stakeholder Analysis
A good stakeholder analysis has always been an important part of policy or strategy development, especially in the area of futures thinking. Understanding whose interests to take into account, their…
The future of water – fertile futures
One of the critical challenges that the climate crisis brings is managing scarce resources, most notably water. Droughts, storms and floods are all expected to increase in all global warming…
Is it time to start worrying about Artificial General Intelligence?
Concerns about the risks associated with run-away artificial intelligence superseding human intelligent (“The Singularity”) have been around for many years, with scientists as eminent as Stephen Hawkins expressing alarm. At…