Regular readers of this blog will remember our pride at the publication of the European Commission’s SAFIRE project. SAMI’s participation included the development of 44 discrete scenarios – four global…
Category: Futures
Flying taxis crash into reality
In “The Fifth Element”, Korben Dallas is visited by a flying street food stall at his apartment window. Only one of any number of flying cars – including the one…
Adaptive Planning in National Infrastructure
SAMI have long advocated the development of Adaptive Plans as a means of developing “robust decisions in uncertain times”. The concept is explained in a blogpost from January 2023 –…
Megatrends and supply chains
We have seen how the Russian invasion of Ukraine caused a spike in oil prices and a rapid re-alignment of European energy supply chains. In what other ways will geo-political…
Twisting the Diplomatic Kaleidoscope: India, China and polynodal policy
In February we used the analogy of a kaleidoscope to describe the polynodal world, which replaced the “New World Order” of 1991, with a world of rising (and declining) powers,…
Four Scenarios for EU Net-Zero
The EU Policy Lab has published a report “Towards a fair and sustainable Europe 2050: Social and economic choices in sustainability transitions” in which it explores possible and necessary changes…