Answers on a postcard please ..read more

Not bad from 1947, a year before Orwell published 1984 with his telescreens ..read more

Getting close now ..read more

Mark my words, there’s something going on here. People are tired of living in the world we’ve created. One where human contact is being removed by technology and where evil is repeatedly triumphing over good ..read more

2nd edit stage ..read more

Some readers may remember Ted, my lovely little lockdown lamb (not quite so little anymore). What you won’t know is that Ted was a crossbreed, so the farmer that actually owned him had him castrated to keep his flock pure bred. Trouble is he may not have been castrated very effectively. Ted has had a son. And get this. His son was born in a stables on Christmas day. In the morning. He’s been named Jesus, obviously.  If anyone wants to bring Baby Jesus some birthday presents might I suggest some gold as it’s currently a record price. If you must you could bring Frankincense, but keep the M ..read more

A university in the United Kingdom recently asked its students to write essays on whether the future was open or closed — an open future being one where anything could happen, a closed future being where a single or fixed future had become inevitable.  Without exception the students all wrote essays about closed futures.  But if there is one thing we can be certain of concerning the future, it is surely that it will always be uncertain. There must always be many ways in which the future could unfold or be amended. We have been engaged as futurists for more than 30 years with the need ..read more

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After 40 years of working and what I think might be 18 years of talking on stage about the future I’m done. No more futures. I did a talk this morning in the City of London and existed stage left (I’d like to think Ziggy Stardust at the Hammersmith Odean in 1973, but his persona was far more alluring and he did it with far more style). I do have a new book for children coming out in May/June next year that will require some support, but beyond that that’s all folks. I will continue writing – but not about the future – and might do the odd talk about other things. Beyond that I plan to spend my ..read more

…or just confirmation bias ..read more