BRINK is a global content platform, supported by Marsh McLennan, that provides insights on critical business issues. In Part 1, BRINK recently asked a cross-section of its experts to identify […]
Delivering the Human Future Conference – Final Report
Humanity faces an existential emergency comprising many interlinked catastrophic risks which are now arriving together. Their collective scale is so great that few grasp it. Together, these risks endanger our […]
‘The impossible has already happened’: what coronavirus can teach us about hope
In the midst of fear and isolation, we are learning that profound, positive change is possible. The idea that everything is connected is an affront to conservatives who cherish a […]
A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse
A quarter of the American population is now engaged in “guard labor”—defending property, supervising work, or otherwise keeping their fellow Americans in line. Economically, most of this disciplinary apparatus is […]
James Lovelock at 100: the Gaia saga continues
Tim Radford reassesses the independent scientist’s groundbreaking body of writing. Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence James Lovelock Allen Lane (2019) [He developed] a sustained and developing argument, in the face of […]