Exploring the disputed concepts of geoengineering and climate intervention: an excerpt from a review for New Socialist of Holly Jean Buck’s After Geogineering.
An essay written for the Fabian Society on making machine learning, renewables and other new technologies work for the collective good.
An essay for New Socialist on the political science fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson, with a focus on his most recent novel Red Moon.
A little over a century ago, there was an expectation that the future was ours to map and manage. An excerpt from a review for New Socialist of Economic Science Fictions, edited by Wiliam Davies.
Why, 10 years after a crisis of capitalism that has entrenched inequalities and insecurity, do progressives still struggle to convince a sceptical public that an alternative economics is possible? A report by the New Economics Foundation offers an answer.
Is it possible for tech innovators to reimagine themselves as social entrepreneurs? If the digital economy is evolving towards the platform, can the platforms be democratised – co-owned by those who work for them and those who use them? An article for norDEV Magazine.
How did an economic model patched together 40 years ago by Deng Xiaoping with the assistance of a well-thumbed copy of Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Programme – and not much else – prove so effective for China, an economy which has grown fifty-fold since 1978?