What Does the Future Hold?

Wild fantasy → disciplined questioning → crystallising vision → action → new data → wilder (but now grounded) fantasy. 1. The 3 a.m. Click A few nights ago I woke at three in the morning with the difference finally clear in my head. I had spent years treating my own daydreams like a guilty habit:…

We’re moving from: Saussurean myth → Peircean self-mirroring → hyperreal micro-affect → distributed affective contagion → to the first commercial deployment of sustained, secure-base affect at scale. I. Opening Vision – A Morning in 2034 It is 07:14 on a Tuesday in 2034. You are thirty-eight, still half-dreaming, and the first voice you hear belongs…

I. The Dawn of Abundance: Sketching Post-Scarcity and Its Shadow on Business Post-scarcity turns goods into endless plenty, but flips the real fight for businesses from making things to holding attention through genuine ties—though not without its uneven shadows. Imagine waking on a crisp autumn morning in 2025, your phone buzzing with a notification: a…

I. Introduction Picture a quiet evening in soggy London, the kind where rain taps steadily on the window like an old friend sharing half-formed thoughts. You sit at your desk, mapping notes on how money and ideas might shift in a world grown faster. A chat with a tool nudges a stray link: a talk…