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What happens to climate action when the political weather turns populist: more inward-looking, more suspicious of experts, more focused on growth and national pride than on multilateral promises? That’s no longer an abstract question. Across the West, parties and leaders with nativist or “majoritarian” instincts are either in office or within reach of it. Meanwhile, China is doubling down on renewables and exporting the kit to the rest of the world. If you work in energy, ind

This is an edited version of the presentation which Jonathan Blanchard Smith delivered to the Futures4Europe Conference 2025, held in...

Most of us who think about the future—professionally, strategically, or just out of curiosity—have probably tried asking ChatGPT to...

We are observing that the changes that mark the end of the historic phase of economic growth throughout the last century, mean that it’s...

Our work on the Futures Toolkit included illustrating the tools with many different case studies. Here’s another – the work that SAMI...

The Lord Mayor of the City of London for the year 2023/24 (the 695th, no less), Right Honourable Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli, is...

Many of you will know that here at SAMI we are not overly sold on technology trends – no flying taxis for us. There is a tendency amongst...

Regular readers will have seen our blogs about Cyberevolution, the European conference for Chief Information Security Officers. We held...

Sometimes, rarely, something comes along which just has to be included in scenario building. Not a matter of “I like that” but “this is...

In “The Fifth Element”, Korben Dallas is visited by a flying street food stall at his apartment window. Only one of any number of flying...

Written by Gill Ringland, Ed Steinmueller & Patricia Lustig, this blog first appeared at the end of June as a Pamphleteer in the Long...

Anyone who has read Richard Morgan’s “Altered Carbon” or seen the TV series based on it will be familiar with the idea of the “cortical...