Near-Future Fictions Virtual Futures Salon

I’m delighted to have had a story accepted for the Virtual Futures Salon Near Future Fictions event in London next week. The salon exists to reassert the significance of science fiction as a tool for navigating the increasing technologization of society and...

Science and Science Fiction: Versions of the Future | Bristol Lit Fest

Science Fiction writers and Scientists bring you near-future stories designed to provoke lively debate. The Human Brain Project Foresight Lab at King’s College London and SciFi authors Stephen Oram, Allen Ashley and Jule Owen have worked with leading scientists from...

“If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.” Philip K. Dick

The Kardashev Scale of Civilization Types

Michio Kaku’s Classes of Impossibilities from ‘Physics of the Impossible’

Why bother to imagine the future if “futurologists are always wrong”?

Last year, Bryan Appleyard wrote an article in the New Statesman titled Why futurologists are always wrong – and why we should be sceptical of techno-utopians. In it he points out the flawed history of predictions and takes to task the overly optimistic tendencies of...