Tweets

It’s amazing how much of life has migrated online: I think I took this picture at the VW Museum in Germany

I started tweeting in 2009, as @volansjohn, and find Twitter an endless source of fascination and useful information.

Carey Coaker

19 March 2021

As part of an exchange with an American relation today, my brother Gray sent a photograph from when I was perhaps 6, or so. It shows my favourite grandmother, Isabel’s, second husband, Carey Coaker. He was a doctor. The place: Bilbao House, Dulverton, Somerset. Apparently, we were watching Gray being mounted on a horse, which […]

Frontiers

17 March 2021

For some years I have been contributing to the Frontier Report by our friends at Tokyo-based E-Square. If you speak Japanese, the latest column (sample above) is on the role of science fiction in expanding our horizons and rendering the sustainability agenda more intelligible. Must work out how to attach a PDF to a blog!

Green Swans Go Imperial

2 March 2021

Have been seriously remiss with posting here – not least because our world has gone slightly berserk. Part of that has been the sheer proliferation of virtual keynotes and podcasts I have been doing on the Green Swans story. For example, today I am doing keynotes in France, at the Audencia business school, and this […]

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