https://jamesm.blog/series/four-futures/ Recent content in Four Futures on jamesm.blog https://jamesm.blog/papermod-cover.png https://jamesm.blog/papermod-cover.png Hugo en Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0100 https://jamesm.blog/ai/four-futures-series/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0100 https://jamesm.blog/ai/four-futures-series/ A reading path through the Four Futures series - the framework, live signals, and century-scale projections for where AI reshapes work, power, and meaning. https://jamesm.blog/ai/the-year-3026/ Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:03:00 +0100 https://jamesm.blog/ai/the-year-3026/ A thousand years is long enough that nothing we currently call a company, a currency, or a country is likely to survive. What does thinking seriously about 3026 actually look like - and what, if anything, holds its value across that horizon? https://jamesm.blog/ai/the-year-2126/ Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:02:00 +0100 https://jamesm.blog/ai/the-year-2126/ A hundred years is close enough to reason about concretely and far enough that most of what feels fixed today will be gone. What does 2126 honestly look like - and which of today's problems have we solved by then, which have we inherited, and which are entirely new? https://jamesm.blog/ai/reading-the-signals-four-futures/ Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:45:00 +0100 https://jamesm.blog/ai/reading-the-signals-four-futures/ A follow-up to the four futures framework - scoring the real-world signals firing right now against broad abundance, winner-take-most, techno-feudalism, and managed transition. https://jamesm.blog/ai/four-futures-machine-speed-economy/ Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:26:00 +0100 https://jamesm.blog/ai/four-futures-machine-speed-economy/ A map of four plausible futures - broad abundance, winner-take-most, techno-feudalism, and a managed transition - with the signals that suggest which one is emerging.