The PreFuture

What will today's debts cost our grandchildren?
From the bonds of 1752 to Ferguson's Law: the past, present and future of government borrowing.
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If machines take the work, where will we find meaning?
Viktor Frankl, the Sunday neurosis, and Keynes's fifteen-hour week.
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Learn to code, or learn to ask?
A decade ago we taught every child to code. Will the winners of the future be the ones who ask the best questions?
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Europe built the first stock market. Who builds what goes in it?
From Amsterdam in 1602 to SpaceX in 2026: land, labour, capital, and the courage to fail.
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Questions we couldn't answer. Answers we can't question.
From Hitchens to Fermat: why understanding still matters.
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Why do so many AI models have five-letter names?
Argon, Astra, Fable, Haiku, Llama. What Kodak knew in 1888.
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The PreFuture: Where everything connects
A welcome, and an invitation to question...
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