It has been a rough year. We’d like to brighten up your thoughts by sharing a few things that make us optimistic, from 2022. Most important is that the serious…
Author: Patricia Lustig
Digitalisation and resilience
Digitalisation is in the news. Recent topics include whether Google’s LaMDA system shows sentience, and on the legal and other issues raised when robots or AI systems have agency (defined…
EC SAFIRE Scenarios for Global Regions: Indian Subcontinent
In a continuation of our series based on a report to the European Commission by SAMI and a consortium of partners, IFOK, Cadmus, and Teknologi Radet, to develop a system…
EC SAFIRE Scenarios for Global Regions: ASEAN
In a continuation of our series based on a report to the European Commission by SAMI and a consortium of partners, IFOK, Cadmus, and Teknologi Radet, to develop a system…
Global Warming – Is The Ship Turning?
This blog first appeared last week as a Pamphleteer in the Long Finance series, https://www.longfinance.net/news/pamphleteers/global-warming-is-the-ship-turning/. As COP26 approaches, we are wondering if there are any signs that the jugg.ernaut of global…
A world of few children
This blog first appeared, in July 2021, as a Pamphleteer in the Long Finance series, https://www.longfinance.net/news/pamphleteers/world-few-children/. Demographers are starting to talk about global population decline, with alarm. Why is it…