Yesterday Dougald Hine gave a very engaging talk titled “The Long Doom?” at the London Long Now Meetup, which I had helped put together.

“The economic crisis has made even the immediate future far more uncertain than it seemed a year ago – so what about the longer term? How would we adapt to a world in which economic contraction replaced economic growth as the norm, good years taken with bad? What directions could the product and service design take in that kind of scenario? More generally, how do we get better at preparing for a wider range of futures – particularly those that don’t look like an upgraded version of the present?”

I urge you to have a look at the video of his talk here.

And the last slide featured the Ark Radio.