Environmental Scientist
Brad Allenby on Governance
Series One
Brad Allenby has begun a new series questioning if current government institutions are still functional and if they are not, are we able to conjecture on what might eventually replace them? Allenby will be exploring his inquiry in several succeeding posts. He notes the concept of technological singularity, and how the core to any query is through understanding the impacts the technological frontier has on “governance, institutions, society, and even individual psychologies.” Allenby argues that “technology has made many of the assumptions underlying today’s national government models obsolete, and that new ideas and sociotechnical alternatives are necessary to create the governance models that will be successful in the future.”