In the novel 2089, the Orwellian features of the surveillance society are made possible by bugging the brain of everyone …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
What is wrong with the world?
What is wrong in the world? Well, where do I start?! Are we ‘going to Hell in a handcart’? In …
How do we know what is wrong with the world?
Trump’s August tweets of “Fire and fury”, “locked and loaded” lead me to think we are now at war with …
Is there something wrong with the world?
Simply put, I think there is. Something wrong in the world that is. In my nearly 50 years, I have …
Sour Fruit
Dystopian Hull. That may sound like a tautology, but the imagined future in Sour Fruit is more real than many …