Educational Futures: Dominant and Contesting Visions, London, Routledge, 2005 Two central propositions are put forward in this wlecome addition to the Routledge Futures in Education series. First that there are ‘foundational problems in the Western project of expansion and tech... Read More

To Save Everything Click Here, Penguin, London, 2013, 413 pp. + xv It’s probably fair to say that most people are increasingly bedazzled by the rapid appearance of new electronic devices, apps, social media and the dizzying array of options that they offer. Yet under the condit... Read More

Global Paradox, London, Brealey, 1994. 304 pages. John Naisbitt, well-known author of a number of popular books, is back on familiar ground with Global Paradox. The sub-title of this book is: the bigger the world economy, the more powerful its smallest players. However, by 'power... Read More

Time to Get Real: A Critique of Global Trends 2030 - Alternative Worlds* Introduction In his invitation to comment on this new NIC report Michael Marien suggests respondents evaluate its main features: four ‘megatrends’, six ‘game-changers’, eight ‘b... Read More

The Politics of Subversion: A Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century, Oxford, Polity Press/Basil Blackwell, 1989, 232 pages. The Politics of Subversion is collected from disparate papers and amounts to a very different work. It links with the first insofar as it is centrally conc... Read More

Interfutures. Facing the Future: Mastering the Probable and Managing the Unpredictable. Paris: OECD, 1979. vi + 425pp. $20.00 (paper). Photographs of the earth taken from space strikingly illustrate its fundamental unity. While this powerful insight may not yet have transformed i... Read More