Retrotopia: Learning Lessons
Our narrator finishes up his trip to a tier one county, and starts to notice ways in which the Lakeland Republic has gone neither forwards nor backwards, but off on an angle all its own…
Future Scenarios
Retrotopia: Neglected Technologies
Our narrator attends the Lakeland Republic’s annual drone shoot, and finds out that not all technological innovations start out from the current state of the art…
Retrotopia: A Gift to be Simple
Our narrator ventures out of Toledo into a tier one rural county and sees one of the alternative cultures taking shape in the Lakeland Republic.
The Flutter of Space Bat Wings
You don’t actually know a time or a culture until you discover the thoughts that its people can’t allow themselves to think.
Retrotopia: Economics by Other Means
Our narrator catches a train for the agricultural hinterlands of the Lakeland Republic, and learns some of the reasons why the Republic is so hard to invade.
Zarzalejo Futuro: future scenarios
What does it look like when Transition meets the 15M movement in the context of a mountain village in the centre of Spain?
Retrotopia: A Visit to the Capitol
“Excellent. I’ll offer just one correction: we haven’t succeeded as well as we have despite ignoring the economic advice of the World Bank and so forth. We’ve done so precisely because we’ve ignored their advice.”
Splinterlands: The View from 2050
Let me start with a confession. I’m old-fashioned and I have an old-fashioned profession. I’m a geo-paleontologist.
Retrotopia: Inflows and Outputs
Our narrator visits a city power plant that runs on an unexpected fuel source and a stock market subject to even less familiar rules…
Retrotopia: A Question of Subsidies
It was an interesting ride, in an odd way.
Retrotopia: The Scent of Ink on Paper
Our narrator, roaming the streets of the capitol of the Lakeland Republic, visits a newsstand and a public library, and discovers that information and knowledge are two different things…
Retrotopia: Public Utilities, Private Goods
Our narrator, having arrived in the capital of the Lakeland Republic, discovers that things are even stranger there than he thought…