At the weekend I was lucky enough to be invited to spend a few days on a narrow boat belonging to friends. Despite the weather’s attempts to put a damper on things a great time […]
Tag: future society
Politics, the future and science fiction
In the UK right now we are in the middle of election fever, or I guess for most of us election overload, to the point where you feel like shouting, please can we just vote […]
Robots – will they make us lazy?
I suppose I could rephrase this with ‘robots (machines) are making us lazy.’ Machines have and are increasingly ensuring that, in the west at least, fewer and fewer of us have jobs/lives that entail hard, […]
Why we need space exploration
I know I’ve touched on this subject before and as a science fiction writer you might say I have a vested interest in extoling the view that, yes, the human race needs space exploration. Now […]
Money, money, will it be a rich man’s world?
In my recent blogs on technology I’ve been looking at how it affects me directly. However to move it up a notch or two, one thing it is doing is propelling us towards a truly global […]