Inspirations

"Imagining Otherwise" – Lola Olufemi in conversation

Listen to Lola Olufemi discussing her book Imagining Otherwise with Abeera Khan.

'The impossible has already happened'

In the bleak early days of Covid lockdown, Rebecca Solnit wrote a piece about how 'In the midst of fear and isolation, we are...

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Ectogenesis

A hundred years ago the geneticist J. B. S. Haldane wrote the book Daedalus; or, Science and the Future (1923), which...

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Es Devlin on a car-free 2036

 

 

"It's 1 November 2036 and every city has swapped cars for trees" says Es...

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Football Fascism

In ‘No limits to imagining London’s future’, George Myerson and Yvonne Rydin ask:

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Fourcast Lab

Find out about the Fourcast Lab – a transmedia design collective based at the University of Chicago.

How a group of visionaries predicted today’s world

"From shamanic ritual to horoscopes, humans have always tried to predict the future. Today, trusting predictions and prophecies...

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Naomi Alderman talks about her novel, the future, with Kara Swisher

The Future is a rollicking tale of tech billionaires, survivalists and what it might take to change the world in a good...

Super-persuasive AI

i expect ai to be capable of superhuman persuasion well before it is superhuman at general intelligence, which may lead to some very...

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The Futures Series

The FUTURES Series presents imaginative future visions on a wide range of subjects, written by experts, academics, journalists and...

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To help you write a vision…

 … why not try this writing exercise by painter, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, commentator, and...

Create Your Vision