Futurepolis
Gideon LichfieldOn reinventing democracy, governance, and government for the 21st century.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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Submit a story to the Protopian Prize and get published in an MIT Press anthology
In early 2011, Neal Stephenson1 went to a conference called Future Tense, where he “lamented the decline of the manned space program” and “our far broader inability as a society to execute on the big stuff.” Some at the event blamed science...
The Lexington Experiment, Part II
Richard Young (center, in gray) at the Lexington civic assembly (photo: CivicLex)
See Part I here.
It’s hard to explain neatly what CivicLex does. “Community organization” or “local democracy nonprofit” doesn’t quite cut it. Besides the c...
The Lexington Experiment, part I
Posters on the wall at the CivicLex office (photo: Gideon Lichfield)
I just got back from Lexington, Kentucky, which completed its first civic assembly last weekend. I’d been wanting to visit for a while to check out CivicLex, a possibly o...
Come talk about how to make democracy super-duper-exciting
AI-generated by Claude Sonnet 4.5
Tomorrow (January 22) I’m co-hosting an online event—which you can join!—with a rather eclectic bunch: Kim Stanley Robinson (science fiction novelist), Baratunde Thurston (podcaster, writer, comedian), Ren...
Mamdani's bold experiment in participatory democracy
Zohran Mamdani” by Taymaz Valley, CC BY 4.0 (via Flickr)
A note: on January 22nd I’m hosting a webinar for Harvard’s Ash Center for Democracy with Kim Stanley Robinson, Baratunde Thurston, Renee DiResta, and others on how to get pro-democr...
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Most recently editor-in-chief of WIRED, now independent, writing FUTUREPOLIS on the reinvention of democratic governance for the 21st century. More at gideonlichfield.com
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