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 –…
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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…
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…