While we’re putting together the scenarios from the last meeting of the BCH Advisory Group, here’s a more involved future world: JG Ballard’s Drowned World on BBC7 (UK only, available till Sunday). Published in 1962, it’s worth attention as a source for another mythic strand to draw on in response to a warming climate: it’s [...]
Well. That was pretty exhilarating. We’ve just had the privilege of spending three days in the Cotswolds with our Expert Advisory Group, laying out the structure of the three worlds that form the basis of our BCH scenarios. We’ll share more detail about these scenarios in a later post: this is just a short note [...]
In Kevin Kelly’s piece The Missing Near Future I was struck by this passage:
As an audience we can believe an alien present. It’s like today, only more so. Maybe an alternative version of today. We can also easily be persuaded to believe in a far future. We feel sure that someday, somehow they’ll have massive [...]
