Many of us spend much of our time in meetings. They are the everyday expression of collective intelligence — bringing groups together to think. But often they feel like a waste of time, and fail to make the most of the knowledge and experience of the people present. …

THE CASE FOR EXPLORATORY SOCIAL SCIENCES: how social science lost sight of the future and how it can recover its confidence Summary Should the social sciences only analyse the past and present? Or should they also try to help design the future? Here I make the case for new ways…

Achieving serious reductions in carbon emissions is arguably the greatest engineering challenge of the century. …

Is it possible for an organisation, a system or a society, to become wiser? If so, how could we make this real and not just a vague invocation — like wishing people would be kinder or more loving? In this paper I share some answers. I suggest what might be…

Impossible and inevitable: some thoughts on the road to global government The current crisis has shown up just how weak many global institutions have become — with most of the work of containing COVID-19 done by national governments and the WHO under attack. But the crisis — and growing awareness…