Category: Futures

  • 06MAY24 / video of Copenhagen worldbuilding lecture

    The video of my lecture at Copenhagen University last month is available for your viewing pleasure.

  • begin to remake who we are and how we live

    On the one hand, [Buckminster] Fuller’s philosophy of change seems too hopeful now; it’s fair to wonder whether we have time for it.

  • Malmö music futures: Waves of the Blue Sea

    Three stories from me this time, based on three scenarios produced by a gloriously eccentric batch of participants in four full days of collaborative foresight exploration of “the futures of sound and song”.

  • mister gotcha trend-lord douchebag

    Trends Discourse is a genre unto itself, I have discovered lately, as I try to sustain some sort of engagement with what is arguably an adjacent profession to my own. But the self-satisfaction of its leading pundits, and the lack of reflexivity thereby implied, can make for some serious eyeroll material. Exhibit A is this…

  • in Copenhagen, “The Future” is dead

    in Copenhagen, “The Future” is dead

    As not-very-subtly hinted yesterday, I have another talk in the calendar, this one at the much better-known (and rather less polar-proximal) location of Copenhagen, taking place from 3pm CET on Thursday 25th April. It’s always nice to be asked to give a talk, but it’s extra special when they make and print a poster for…