A few years ago, I toured a factory in Darlington in the north of England, where they are developing mini projector systems to install in smartphones – lay it on your coffee table and watch a movie on the wall. Doesn’t seem like they’ve managed…
Tag: 1984
In the novel 2089, the Orwellian features of the surveillance society are made possible by bugging the brain of everyone in society. Everything that people see and hear is detected and then published on the internet. Society as a whole positively chose to put this…
Thinking about how a new society may develop after a globally apocalyptic catastrophe, how will the changing climate influence how the new society develops? In the last edition of this blog, I outlined how the entire world is currently suffering violence, be it through war,…
As I write, there are out-and-out civil wars in umpteen countries, violent conflicts of other descriptions (violent independence or insurgency movements) in double-umpteen countries, violently oppressive governments in power in umpteen more countries, and simply criminal violent groups in many others. And of course a…
In the last edition of this blog I suggested that small sized communities are the way forward for creating happy communities. This is the formula used by the emergent post-apocalyptic society in my new novel, 2089. But what is wrong with the current political systems…
In the first few editions of this blog, I’ve painted a pretty bleak picture of the difficulties facing people in the world today. So the natural next question would be: “OK, so what do we do about it all?” How do I think we should…
Clearly, from these Blog of the Future posts, it would seem that nobody is doing anything terribly successful to reverse, slow, or even mitigate our ride to Hell in a handcart. Indeed, there are some who have put a brick on the accelerator (do handcarts…
What is wrong in the world? Well, where do I start?! Are we ‘going to Hell in a handcart’? In the last edition of this blog I highlighted how difficult it is to be sure these days what is actually going on in the word.…
Trump’s August tweets of “Fire and fury”, “locked and loaded” lead me to think we are now at war with Eastasia. If you’re familiar with 1984, you will know that, of course, we have never been at war with Eurasia. Oh, hold on, “more troops…