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.

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

Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.

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

Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.

Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.

It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.