This pandemic book set in South Africa was published in 2016. It is prescient, in many ways, and I really …
Foundation book review
I read Asimov’s Foundation as a boy (maybe 12 years old). It set me solidly on the path of science …
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Penfold Books
With the difficulties in getting noticed in the publishing world these days, Miles took the plunge and set up his …
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Is it possible to bug someone’s brain?
In the novel 2089, the Orwellian features of the surveillance society are made possible by bugging the brain of everyone …
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The future of smartphones?
A few years ago, I toured a factory in Darlington in the north of England, where they are developing mini …
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How will climate change affect the changing social order?
Thinking about how a new society may develop after a globally apocalyptic catastrophe, how will the changing climate influence how …
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How many civil wars make an apocalypse?
As I write, there are out-and-out civil wars in umpteen countries, violent conflicts of other descriptions (violent independence or insurgency …
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How can we improve on the current political systems?
In the last edition of this blog I suggested that small sized communities are the way forward for creating happy …
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What should the new social order be?
In the first few editions of this blog, I’ve painted a pretty bleak picture of the difficulties facing people in …
What are people doing about what’s wrong with the world?
Clearly, from these Blog of the Future posts, it would seem that nobody is doing anything terribly successful to reverse, …