The Celter Strategy recognizes the centrality of space exploration to resolving the problems of the earth. GPS, climate satellites, communications satellites, solar panels, microprocessors and much more came out of space research, but more than that, the clear conception of this as a single world, with a shared ecosystem, came from the spacer perspective. In [...]
Read more →I was having a think about Carse’s Finite and Infinite Games in the context of complexity science, and came up with another way of thinking about the four categories of activity in Cynefin. Simple rules, open goals is Conway’s game of life. Complex rules, open goals is VUCA – but also art and design. There’s [...]
Read more →A new picture of the current state of the world.
Read more →Can enough civil society starve political evil?
Read more →I’m currently in Belgium, Brussels, staying in a borrowed flat. If things go according to plan, next stop is Ireland for about a month to apply a bit of thinking to one particular community’s economic future. If that doesn’t pan, then I’m foot loose and fancy free. Berlin’s a likely port of call either before, [...]
Read more →I’m working back towards The Future We Deserve, my (and your) book project. When we started The Future We Deserve, I had no idea what it was really about. I wanted to collect short, intense essays about the future and basically just see what happened if we took a “with enough eyes, all bugs are [...]
Read more →Theoretical limits of government effectiveness.
Read more →Climate is global Biotech is global Terrorism is global Human rights are global We need to take the kind of intelligence which produced the thermonuclear bombs and military war planes and apply it to solving the global security problems we all face. We need to turn the genius and power of the military, and point [...]
Read more →Classifying our space efforts is crippling us.
Read more →Democracies can’t govern; the world dies.
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