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.
We seem to be entering a new golden age of space exploration but with so many national and commercial players its hard to know what to believe. I take a long look at The Future of Humanity, a new book by Michio Kaku that offers valuable insight into the likely infrastructure of a future space economy.
China now occupies the role once played by the Soviet Union when futurists and science fiction writers imagine the Earth’s political tensions extending into a new era of interplanetary conflict. A brief article for The Norwich Radical in which I try to discern the vector of China’s accelerating space programme.
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.