When exploring major drivers of future change, the focus all too frequently is on technological innovations or short-term political tensions. But both the adoption of technology and pressures on governments…
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A New National Purpose: Innovation Can Power the Future of Britain
February saw the publication of a joint report by Tony Blair and William Hague, advocating nothing less than a “fundamental reshaping of the state”. “A New National Purpose” seeks to…
Cut+Paste at The Crick Institute
We have had Biotechnology as one of SAMI’s main global Drivers of Change for many years. The invention of the genome editing tool CRISPR/Cas-9, which won its inventors the Nobel…
Why we are optimists - 2022
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…
New World Disorder: Welcome to the Diplomatic Kaleidoscope
Our recent blog looked at the emerging concept of “polycrisis” – how in a polynodal world, different problems collided, often with the effect of amplifying each other. The replacement of…
Adaptive Plans – a dynamic approach to putting scenarios into action
How do you plan in a world that is so uncertain? How do you prepare when so many different futures could emerge? The experience of the last few years has…