A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.

When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.

Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.

The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there. Resilience might be more useful, in that it assumes a dynamic environment and that perfection is impossible. You need to design systems to accommodate failure rather than eliminate it. By trying to be perfect, many visions of sustainability are quite brittle

Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.

I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept.