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The next wave is Andrew Curry's futures blog. Here I catch clippings, quotes and pictures about the future - and the present.

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‘The Fizz’ and transformative futures

‘The Fizz’ and transformative futures

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Secrets under the surface

Secrets under the surface

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Wilder’s tale of occupied Berlin

Wilder’s tale of occupied Berlin

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Culture, change, and ‘structures of feeling’ as signals

Culture, change, and ‘structures of feeling’ as signals

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What kind of business is the AI business?

What kind of business is the AI business?

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Hobson’s Choice

‘There’s always room at the top’

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AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing

AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing

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Britain’s political eruption

One of the mysteries of the current British Labour government has been its obsession with the party group known as Blue Labour, which espouses a form of social democracy that marries social conservatism with progressive economic policies. This isn’t just a parochial issue: it seems to be a feature of many struggling social democratic parties at the moment. (Andy Warhol, Vesuvius. Photo: Andrew…

Britain’s political eruption

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‘Elvis has left the building’

‘Elvis has left the building’

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Plants and the great cognition debate

Plants and the great cognition debate

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Me and Bobby McGee: all the regrets in the world

Me and Bobby McGee: all the regrets in the world

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Playing games with Shakespeare: enjoying Rosaline’s rewrite of Romeo and Juliet.

Playing games with Shakespeare

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A handbook for regenerative design: reviewing Oliver Broadbent’s “Pattern Book”.

A handbook for regenerative design

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Making sense of futures

I was invited to talk about futures recently at the Royal College of Defence Studies In London. Most of the event was unattributable, but our initial remarks were recorded, so I can share a version of them here. Futures, in its modern version, is a child of the Second World War. It has two foundational strands, one in the United States, funded by the Department of Defense, and associated with…

Making sense of futures

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The 2025 ‘off-centre’ Christmas playlist

Image by Rombo, via Unsplash I’m running out of time here to mention the 2025 edition of my off-centre seasonal/ Christmas playlist, but just in case anyone is trying to extend their seasonal cheer for a few days more, and need some impetus from somewhere, here it is. I’ve been assembling these now since 2018, and my son asked me this year what my criteria were for including tracks in the…

The 2025 ‘off-centre’ Christmas playlist

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Party politics is realigning itself. The winners understand that the economy has been broken since the Financial Crisis. New post at The Next Wave.

Party politics is realigning itself

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The ties that bind—the constraints and compromises that hold families together reveal themselves to us slowly in Ozu’s classic, Tokyo Story.

The ties that bind