This is an interview for the Cypriot newspaper Fileleftheros. The Greek translation can be found in this link. What follows is the original text in English. The interviewer was Xenia Trouki. Let’s start by understanding what a futurist does, including how you go about forecasting. A futurist aims to predict...
Category: Democracy
Cyber Republic and London Futurists
https://youtu.be/rctk6ZLQnzI Presenting and discussing Cyber Republic with David Wood and the London Futurists.
Launching Cyber Republic at the LSE
https://youtu.be/TA2FjzPu-hI Video of my conversation with Lichelle Wolmarans about Cyber Republic, organized by the LSE Alumni on October 27, 2020.
The future of democracy podcast
Many thanks to Alan Boyle, editor at Cosmic Log, and scifi author Dominica Phetteplace for interview and podcast on "Cyber Republic" and politics of the future. Listen to the podcast here: https://anchor.fm/fiction-science
Launching Cyber Republic on October 7
Come to join the LSE Alumni Association London (LSEAAL) and me, George Zarkadakis, to present and discuss my new book "Cyber Republic: reinventing democracy in the age of intelligent machines". We will explore the future of work, how AI can solve today's issues and propose a 'Cyber Republic' to overcome...
Space republics: how to democratise space exploration and accelerate colonisation
I have vivid memories from the hot July night of 1969 when the Eagle landed on the Moon. I was nearly five then. I was woken up[1] and hurried by my parents, still dressed in my pyjamas, to our next-door neighbour who owned one of the very few, black-and-white, television...
Abandoning the metropolis: space colonisation as the new imperative
The year 2019 began with news of the most distant object ever visited by a spaceship and the landing of a probe on the far side of the Moon. On New Year's Day[1] New Horizons, a robotic spaceship launched in 2006, was transmitting photographs of a bizarre, snowman-shaped object called...
Citizen Assemblies: a TEDx talk
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKQmKlxytkI] Do you trust your politicians? The people who represent you, and take decisions on your behalf about vital things, like health, education, national defence, and importantly where your taxes are spent Research data show that trust in politicians is at an all-time low across most liberal democracies. In...
Work, Love, Polis: a talk at the National Library of Norway
On December 5, 2018 I was honoured with an invitation to open the "Fantastic Futures AI Conference" organized by the National Library of Norway, in Oslo. I put together my talk like a triptych of words; "Work", "Love" and "Polis". For each of the words I used a story to...
Public Goods, commodities and social contract
Are education or healthcare public goods or commodities? Should the State control education or healthcare, or should it allow market forces to set prices and utilize resources? Questions such as these seem to beg answers depending on the respondent’s political ideology. Socialists, or statists in general, would argue that they...