Where Are All The Jobs Going? Lessons From The First Industrial Revolution. And 150 Years Of Pain.
In a world which is seeing a simultaneous increase in the capabilities of robots and artificial intelligence with the capacity to take over many factory and service sector jobs, an…
Cassandra: Time To Give Up On Predicting Climate Change?
Most History Future Now readers will be familiar with Homer’s epic of the Iliad, written about 2,800 years ago. Few will have actually read the poem, most will have a vague idea ab…
Why Do We Need The Military? Securing Energy Supplies And Trade Routes
History Future Now examines our military expenditure and asks two basic questions: first, what is the purpose of the military? And second, if we did things differently would we nee…
Who Are The Losers In The Energy Revolution?
If you own shares in energy companies that do not focus on solar energy, you should consider selling now. Steal a march on people still half asleep, and start buying into energy co…
Why The Nuclear Family Needs To Die, In Order For Us To Live
The concept of a nuclear family is relatively recent – it is first mentioned in The Oxford English Dictionary in 1925 – and refers to a household that consists of a mother, father…