The current pandemic has raised the question about existential risk and our response to it. What exactly is an existential threat anyway? The literal answer is anything that impacts our…
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Pandemic-3.0 – from crisis to transformation
At terrifying speed the Covid-19 global pandemic has brought a multitude of deaths, the lock-down of half the world’s population, and the decimation of its economy. The material facts of…
What do you do when a “wildcard” hits? Thoughts from a futurist
We’ve all read loads of prognostications about how the coronavirus outbreak will change the world – or not. But it got us thinking more generally about “wildcards” and what to…
After the pandemic
At the moment we’re all trying to come to terms with the profound short-term personal and business consequences of Covid-19 but we also have to think about how it will…
Global Satisfaction with Democracy 2020
The Centre for the Future of Democracy was launched in January 2020 to explore the challenges and opportunities faced by democratic politics over the coming century. Based at the Bennett Institute for…
Covid-19: could we see it coming?
I have been searching for predictions of coronavirus to see if this was foreseen by anyone. I haven’t come up with anything yet but a few people have pointed to…