Pace layers offer a framework for understanding how different systems change at different speeds and how those differences shape the future.
About The Next Wave Futures
The Next Industrial Revolution
An analysis explores how emerging technologies, automation, and innovation could reshape industries and the future of work.
An analysis explores how emerging technologies, automation, and innovation could reshape industries and the future of work.
What Will Happen in the 2030s
A futures analysis explores emerging trends, technologies, and social changes that could shape the decade ahead.
A futures analysis explores emerging trends, technologies, and social changes that could shape the decade ahead.
Creating a Politics of Longing
An exploration of how hope, imagination, and shared aspirations can shape visions for future societies.
An exploration of how hope, imagination, and shared aspirations can shape visions for future societies.
Understanding Systemic Change by Looking at the Grenfell Tower
An analysis uses the Grenfell Tower tragedy to explore systemic failures, accountability, and the need for lasting change.
An analysis uses the Grenfell Tower tragedy to explore systemic failures, accountability, and the need for lasting change.
‘The Fizz’ and Transformative Futures
As part of the Sustainability Accelerator’s ongoing research into The Rift, we are working with several groups to understand what kinds of practices can most effectively help us to navigate emerging conditions of climatic and societal disruption.
As part of the Sustainability Accelerator’s ongoing research into The Rift, we are working with several groups to understand what kinds of practices can most effectively help us to navigate emerging conditions of climatic and societal disruption.
Culture, Change, and ‘Structures of Feeling’
The idea of “structures of feeling” was developed by the cultural theorist Raymond Williams during the 1960s and ‘70s.
The idea of “structures of feeling” was developed by the cultural theorist Raymond Williams during the 1960s and ‘70s.
What Kind of Business Is the AI Business?
My post here on AI published on Tuesday discussed what type of technology innovation AI represents, and therefore what types of business model might work.
My post here on AI published on Tuesday discussed what type of technology innovation AI represents, and therefore what types of business model might work.
AI Could Be the End of the Digital Wave, Not the Next Big Thing
I have deliberately tried not to write too much about AI, because the signal gets swamped by the noise.
I have deliberately tried not to write too much about AI, because the signal gets swamped by the noise.
Britain’s Political Eruption
One of the mysteries of the current British Labour government has been its obsession with the party group known as Blue Labour.
One of the mysteries of the current British Labour government has been its obsession with the party group known as Blue Labour.
Plants and the Great Cognition Debate
Spanish researcher Paco Calvo believes some people are plant blind—unable to see plants as cognitive organisms endowed with memories, perceptions, and feelings, capable of learning from the past and anticipating the future, able to sense and experience the world.
Spanish researcher Paco Calvo believes some people are plant blind—unable to see plants as cognitive organisms endowed with memories, perceptions, and feelings, capable of learning from the past and anticipating the future, able to sense and experience the world.
A Handbook for Regenerative Design
The Lab has been running extended training and leadership courses, and The Pattern Book has partly emerged from this experience of teaching and learning.
The Lab has been running extended training and leadership courses, and The Pattern Book has partly emerged from this experience of teaching and learning.
Making Sense of Futures
Over the second quarter of a century, scenarios, and in particular a variant called “scenario planning”, became dominant.
Over the second quarter of a century, scenarios, and in particular a variant called “scenario planning”, became dominant.
Party Politics Is Realigning Itself
In the US, the main political parties have gone through significant alignment every 30-40 years or so. Democracy 2076 sees us as going through that moment right now: in other words, there is everything to play for.
In the US, the main political parties have gone through significant alignment every 30-40 years or so. Democracy 2076 sees us as going through that moment right now: in other words, there is everything to play for.
Breaking the Industrial Food System
We’re currently producing enough to feed the world’s population, but close to one-in-ten people globally are under-nourished, and this number has been increasing again after a long period of decline.
We’re currently producing enough to feed the world’s population, but close to one-in-ten people globally are under-nourished, and this number has been increasing again after a long period of decline.
Taking Down the Grenfell Tower
There is some controversy about the decision to demolish the Tower.
There is some controversy about the decision to demolish the Tower.