INTERVIEW
address it perfectly , because they ’ re designed to be realistic not abstract utopia . They are designed to allow people to stand in the future and think ‘ what does today look like now ’? Is the new digital future going to be as productive as the industrial revolution was ? Or as evenly shared ? The fact that we can connect to anyone , anywhere , at any time is a phenomenal achievement in human history . The question is will we use it well or not ?” Hard Rock is about the fragmentation of geopolitics , the inwardness of the nation state , concerns about security manifesting in nationalist tendencies , a slowdown in global growth , rising inequality . Here the energy system is much more fragmented and localised . Unfinished Symphony sees a future that has stronger international co-operation around global challenges
12 October 2017