scenarios – What The Future Now?

Three doors; one room

Posted on March 6, 2020 by bronwynruthwilliams in futurism, observations

"And so if we look at Europe and we say, well, how will Europe be different from the way it is today in the future? I think there's sort of three pictures of a very different future, and sort of behind door number one is Islamic Sharia law, and if you're a woman, you'll be … Continue reading Three doors; one room →

The Future Starts Now

Posted on December 18, 2019February 1, 2020 by bronwynruthwilliams in artificial intelligence, blockchain, futurenomics, futurism, observations

The choices we make today, as individuals, as businesses, and as societies ripple out all around us, amplifying over time. What will future generations – our children and our grandchildren (indeed, even our future selves, should we live long enough, as well we could)- make of the choices we are making on their behalf? The … Continue reading The Future Starts Now →

Society 2030: A Set of Socio-Economic Scenario Sketches

Posted on May 23, 2019 by bronwynruthwilliams in big data, economics, futurenomics, futurism, observations, scenarios

We are currently at a cross roads when it comes to the balance of power across the world. Advances in technology are combining with shifting socio-economic trends to form new ideologies, each pushing for a different versions of utopia. Here follows a set of broad-strokes possible macro socio-economic scenarios that could play out in the … Continue reading Society 2030: A Set of Socio-Economic Scenario Sketches →

Why Nations Fail

Posted on April 9, 2019 by bronwynruthwilliams in Reading Right Now

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty, is a very big book that uses rather a lot of pages to outline a very basic idea: Bad Suff Happens to Countries Which Are a) Run Badly b) by Bad People. That's it. (Also, if you don't know much about global political and economic … Continue reading Why Nations Fail →

The WIFI Curtain: Dystopia Now? – The Future of Digital Dictatorships and Totalitarian Technocracies

Posted on September 25, 2018February 13, 2021 by bronwynruthwilliams in artificial intelligence, blockchain, futurism, history, observations

There is no doubt in my mind that we will all shortly by ruled by machines in some variation or the other. I am not talking about robo-cops and terminators (just yet), but rather about technology-powered governments with increasing, omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience over their subjects - building and enforcing some form of a WIFI curtain … Continue reading The WIFI Curtain: Dystopia Now? – The Future of Digital Dictatorships and Totalitarian Technocracies →