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Stop Watching Us! PRISM, Surveillance and the Hierarchy of Privacy 3 Jul 2013 | 12:11 am
A tale of worldwide surveillance networks, international diplomacy and ‘espionage’ has gripped many of us over recent weeks. With what-we-knew-already confirmed once again as true, discussion surroun...
Kickstarter Roundup for Futurists – May/June 2013 25 May 2013 | 02:45 am
Crowdsourced funding is going from strength to strength these days, and when the Pebble ePaper Watch achieved more than 10,000% of its funding goal to raise $10,266,845 the new era had officially arri...
2050 Pathways: The Numbers of a Green Economy 1 May 2013 | 01:07 am
The 2050 Pathways calculator is an impressive piece of open-source kit, allowing you to prioritise different avenues for both energy consumption and supply in an attempt to meet current emission reduc...
Taking a Digital Holiday: Are We Digital Natives or Addicts? 30 Mar 2013 | 12:24 am
It was quite clear that I had become habitual in my smartphone use over and beyond its capacity to enhance my lifestyle, mindless in my use that allowed impulsive behaviour patterns to lead the way. I...
2013: The Year of the Futurist 1 Mar 2013 | 02:26 am
Futurist thinking is starting to become mainstream. We need a world filled with futurists - so are you ready to call yourself one?
9 Futurist Predictions for 2013 31 Jan 2013 | 12:54 am
Since the new year must bring some new predictions here are nine areas that I think will see important milestones or changes in public sentiment in 2013.
A Very Futurist Christmas: Top Products for 2012 24 Dec 2012 | 04:14 pm
For a futurist, this period of gift-giving is a great time to canvas cutting edge products to see how the technological trends we like to observe are making their way into mainstream use.
Can Digital Democracy Work? 30 Nov 2012 | 02:21 am
What we’re seeing now is recognition that we have entered a transitional period in which the very foundations of civic participation and collective construction of identity have been set free from the...
Digital Diplomacy and the Ethics of Future Politics 10 Nov 2012 | 01:23 am
Thoughts from a digital diplomacy conference discussing how information from social media sources is gathered, verified and used; who are the main actors in the UK and abroad; and what the future of f...
The Power of We? A Story of You, and Me, and I, and Us 16 Oct 2012 | 02:37 am
So it’s Blog Action Day 2012, and as I’ve contributed to this great initiative in 2009 and 2010 I wanted to pick up the habit again and join in this year’s topic: The Power of We.
