Imagine you are the Minister for the Future. Although your colleagues around the cabinet table are distracted by the latest crisis,you have been given a remit to look at the technologies,social trends and geopolitical shifts coming over the horizon. With this special report,Prospect and Nesta have brought this thought experiment to life. Beneath the conceit lies a serious point. Political attention is fixated on managing the present. Political discourse,on the left and right,is often backward looking. Politicians rarely grasp the fundamental changes in science and technology,or culture and values,that are reshaping our lives. When they do,change is presented as a question of adaptation rather than of something we can actively shape
Back to top