The Hames Report

One of the toughest things for people to do is to anticipate sudden change. Typically we project the future by extrapolating from trends in the past. Much of the time this approach works well. But sometimes it fails spectacularly, and...

Breathe In... I have never felt the urge not to change. The impetus to ‘stay put’ or to ‘play safe’ is foreign to my nature. In truth, it offends me. Curiosity - about new ideas, people and places - is...

Shrewd futurists scour the past as well as investigating the possible in their never-ending search for clues and insights into the present. In terms of the social order our forebears so diligently created, that which manifests today, the past happens...

Hannah McKenna slumped slowly to the ground outside the Hall of the People, her head in her hands. A small sigh escaped from her lips. “So has it all come to this?” she whispered to herself. Hannah, a SYMON, is...

The centuries-old dream of representatives from every nation in the world assembling to discuss their common economic issues was realized - or at least attempted - at a United Nations summit last week in New York. Representatives from three-quarters of...

We have a problem. Despite broad and sustained scientific consensus about the growing incapacity of the planet to sustain us and the threat posed by climate change, our elected decision makers and key corporate players seem incapable of doing enough...

One of the toughest things for people to do is to anticipate sudden change. Typically we project the future by extrapolating from trends in the past. Much of the time this approach works well. But sometimes it fails spectacularly, and...

There is something about the human mind and about the way we think that is at once quirky and persistently primitive: seriously out-of-kilter with contemporary reality. We manage our affairs as though they were entirely straightforward, crying foul when others...

In a recent defence white paper issued by the Australian government certain assumptions were made that still go mostly unchallenged in today’s world. Without explicitly stating as much, the authors of the white paper imply that defence is unavoidable, that...

Human-induced climate change is the most serious issue facing humanity this century. There can be no doubt any longer about the science – the continued release of greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, and industrial and...