All in the mind

New Web 3.0 virtual worlds take over the minds and lives of the youth – blurring the boundaries between entertainment, trading, networking, travel, education and work. The long term effects are similar to hard drug habits but...

Trading prosperity

New indicators for prosperity and well being are increasingly popular, and EU trading markets set up. Alternative forms of money and exchange proliferate, which would seem to be good for prosperity, but huge fortunes are made b...

Pre-paid power

The crisis of trust in politicians and elected democracy deepens: direct preference-based decision-making is developed as a commercial Facebook type service, backed by private equity transnational corporations (TNCs). The first...

Cultural diversiy becomes an investment heaven

Cultural industries are driven by climate change into a ‘fin-de-siecle’ nihilist escapism. New immersive / pervasive ICT combines gaming, education, sound, video, and social / cultural networking on a web2-3 model. As socie...

Extreme measures

The EU youth are never more ‘secure’ than today, and never more insecure and risk-seeking. ‘Extreme activity’ communities include sports and leisure, drugs and sex, virtual worlds, and new strands of fundamentalism. The...

Never too late to keep on keeping on

The UK proposal to raise the male retirement age to 66 starts a trend – where problems of social care, public health finance, social cohesion and particularly pensions, can all benefit. Suddenly there are people of 90+ worki...

Total security in the city

In Manchester the final solution to urban decline has now arrived – the all-gated community containing housing, leisure, work, shopping and education – all within a carefully graded pervasive-IT whole-household security sys...