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021: BREAKTIME

It's all just a little bit too much. With Tobias running headlong into a thesis submission in September it's time to take a summer break and come back even stronger.

020: Sublime Hubris and Existential Dread in the Return to the Moon

Only Radha could find the glorious spectacle of space flight ‘meh.’ Luckily for Tobias, I write these blurbs. Artemis II went round the moon and back and only one year of

019: Can Futurists be Useful? (with Dr. Bree Trevena and Charlie Warwick)

If you expected four leading foresight professionals to come and deliver a grab-bag of incredible intel, you are sorely mistaken. Instead we’re joined by Dr. Bree Trevena

018: How Warmer Weather and Collapsing Ecosystems are Driving a Tourism Doom Spiral

There’s been a fair amount of coverage of maritime activities at Futur-ish and we’re pleased to bring you another episode where Radha was triggered by being targeted for

017: The Weird Technology that Might Replace GPS

As we’ve documented before (see; Kessler Syndrome), the infrastructures we rely on and take for granted are increasingly crumbling and under threat. Cue a surge of invest

016: The Movement Charging you to Disconnect (with Tracee Worley)

How much would you pay to be bored? Well, for the kids of Amsterdam it’s about 7 bucks to have their phones locked up and sit and read or do crosswords. Sure, you could j

015: Throwing Money and Ideology at the Population Timebomb

While it’s generally agreed that the global population is continuing to expand (at least until flatlining at the end of the century) for some parts of the world it is fal

014: Robotaxis into Car Shares; The Real Future of Transport

While you were counting down to 2026 on New Years, Tobias was counting down the last seconds of a future he very personally dreamed of; a future with less cars. You see,

013: Hacking the Collapse of Healthcare into Your Own Hands

All over the world, healthcare systems are straining under the weight of ageing populations, crippling costs and overheads and new and novel conditions exacerbated by the

012: Why Leaders are Turning to Gambling to Bet Which Way the World Will Burn

There’s been enough warning from fiction and indeed reality that people should really know better than to reduce the horror of conflict to gaming, petty bets and the chao

011: How Banning Architecture Might Mean more Buildings for Your Brain

Somewhere, in a Trump administration office, someone decided that architects aren’t all that and now they’re being de-professionalised and removed from public debate. At

Update: Tis The Season

Futur-ish are taking a short hiatus from our bi-weekly release schedule for the holiday. We’ll be back in 2026!

010: The Problems with Australia’s Bottomless Brunch of free Energy

The sun has been the biggest tech success story of the last quarter century. Solar panels are cheaper than fences, efficiency just keeps going up and people are installin

009: The Teens Rejecting AI Gimmicks for See-through Plastic Blocks

It used to be that the plastic blocks most teens might be interested in were multicoloured and used for stacking on top of each other. Now they’re transparent and vaguely

008: The Most Futuristic Little Town in Middle England

The future comes at you at unexpected ways. If the bullish pronouncements of tech bros are to believed it’s in the gadgets, gizmos and gimmicks dominating our feeds. Mean

007: The Discord Server that did a Dungeon Raid on a Government

The next time you’re desperately casting heal on your paladin, spare a moment to think about the young revolutionaries using your dress-up-and-pretend world to overthrow

006: The Rumour That Cost Thirty-Five Billion Dollars and Created A Data Center Radar

Truly, nothing is new and everything has happened before and so we find ourselves, amidst a collapsing geopolitical order with some very fancy gadgets (an expensive plane

005: Love Islands? Come and Get Your Sovereignty On

We’ve all wanted our own patch of land to do what we want, right? Little bit of crypto? Pharmaceutical experiments? Human cloning? Well the manifest destiny trolley has c

004: The Future Right at Your Feet that you Never Think About (with Nick Foster)

While you're being relentlessly bombarded with multi-trillion dollar projections, promises and prognostications for the latest gizmo a quiet giant has been gobbling up a

003: The Space Trash Apocalypse You Haven’t Been Thinking About

If the apocalypse was around the corner, would you want to know? Well good news for you, we may already be in it, but because it's hard to pin things down or look beyond