Posts in Near Future
The World Coyote Made

As Janet tries to make ends meet in in a warming world, her son Jason takes it a step further and develops a new bike whose solar sail will find unexpected applications. His uncle Yiska runs—among other things—a program that re-introduces extinct species. In their near future, things are slowly changing for the better, helped by an invisible hand that’s definitely not from the market.

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Life in the Superfast Lane

Some people prognosticate, some people satirise their prognostications with a reductio ad absurdum. So what if the nine principles in Joi Ito’s and Jeff Howe’s Whiplash are applicable on all levels and push civilisation to the next level? Would it look like the Über-Shanzhai in “Life in the Superfast Lane?”

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The Electrified Ants

As surveillance becomes near-ubiquitous in the UK (and beyond) are there still ways to 'fashion a book of rectitude in an empire of lies'? As Philip K. Dick had it, 'will there be new responses by the spirit that we can't anticipate'?

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