Science fiction and predicting the future

Everyone does it, trying to predict the future. Some are relatively small things, such as, holiday trends, mobile phone apps, whatever next big thing in fashion might be.  These are looking, perhaps, a few years […]

A transport vision for those megacities of the future.

A month or so ago I produced a series of blogs looking at what might become of our cities in the future. According to those that supposedly know, by the middle of this century it […]

Eating, drinking and bars in science fiction

In a series of three blogs starting with ‘Where is society going? What will the future look like?’ I take a look at what life might be like in the near future, in this case […]

How far can we go in ‘greening’ our cities of the future?

My last two articles (‘Where is society going’ and ‘Do you want to live in the highrise cities of the future’ on the cities of the future) concentrated on speculating where things were going based on […]

Do you want to live in the high rise cities of the future?

Following on from my last blog ‘Where is society going? What will the future look like?’ I’ve done some thinking and a little digging.  Apparantly, by the middle of this century it is estimated that […]