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 […]

Where is society going? What will the future look like?

In previous blogs I’ve looked a number of times at our possible future relationships, with robots, androids and other intelligent machines, which brings into question, for me, what it means to be human.  Another area […]

Space exploration and Scifi – why we need them both.

In the Saturday Times magazine of the 18th January I read the column by Caitlin Moran, as I usually do.  I like her irreverent somewhat sideways take on life.  It makes you smile, but also […]