No More Optimism Please. More Imagination
Synopsis: Our dread of the future may be less a failure of imagination than an accurate reading of the present.
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Musings on Futures and Foresight
Futures practice, foresight, scenarios, anticipation, uncertainty, and strategic imagination.
Dilemma of the Scriptwriters
Synopsis: Iran’s president spent some of his scarcest hours in New York with the analysts and journalists who draft Washington’s options, rather than with the officials who choose between them.
Do Not Build Below This Point
What it would take for officialdom to remember the water
Elasticity Has Its Limits
It might sound implausible, but a Patriot interceptor missile takes longer to build than a war takes to fight.
Some Truths About Getting Old
Modern society has developed a peculiar habit of romanticising old age.
Beyond the Final Curtain
Consciousness, Quantum Reality, and the Illusion of Death
The Car Was Never The Point
Energy in a Civilisation Built to Move
The Order That Never Arrived
When Institutions Obey a Rule Nobody Wrote
Testimony That's Changing Nothing
The Reformer's Dilemma Across Two Centuries
The Cartographer's Dilemma
The world has shifted. The maps have not
The Art & Science of Anticipation
A Study in Expanded Consciousness
The Blind Strategist
Why Conventional Strategy Cannot See the World it Claims to Navigate
The Folly That Is AUKUS
An inquiry the state would not hold
The War That Cannot End
On the Productive Machinery of Permanent Conflict
What The Text Does Not Say
In defence of authenticity in authorship
Steering by Yesterday's Stars
Five Blind Spots at the Centre of Indo-Pacific Strategic Analysis
The Covenant That Wasn't There
On the pattern no constitution prevents
The Machine that Drinks the Sea
Infrastructure as Destiny
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