Minister for the future

Minister for the future

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Minister for the future: Introduction

The collection offers up a cross-section of the kinds of trends, technologies and cultural shifts which will loom large on the policymaking horizon in coming decades

Rees Howell & Laurie Smith & Celia Hannon

Better than well

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How can we ensure future gains in health are widely distributed?

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A National Health Bank to invest in prevention

We need a Cern-like effort to power an extension in healthy life

Make the UK a living lab for mapping the exposome

Winners take all

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Levelling the tech playing field

Enticing monopolies to unwind themselves

Out of all proportion: reform the way we tax big tech

Don’t break up big tech monopolies—open them up

The anthropocene diet

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The environmental cost of the food we eat cannot be ignored

Public procurement can catalyse a regenerative farming revolution

Thomasina Miers

The young are paying a price for unhealthy food, let them choose how to invest the profits

Christina Adane

It’s time to price in the true costs of the food we eat

Marco Springmann

The new demographics

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The demographic equation that props up society is in flux

We need a people-led commission to shape the future of immigration

Supercharge our package of support for families and invest in our workforce

Minouche Shafik

Establish a Department for Citizen Contribution in place of the DWP

Information superhighway

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The amplification of misinformation is threatening democracy

Create a psychological defence agency to ‘prebunk’ fake news

We the users: shifting power from platforms to people

Stress-test future policies by modelling conspiracy theories before they take hold

Ethan Zuckerman

All in the mind

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Mental health services are creaking under the pressure of rising demand

Psychedelics: expanding the therapeutic toolkit

The surge in self-service checkouts should come with a ‘loneliness levy’

Scale up virtual therapy to bridge the treatment gap

The knowledge

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How can we anticipate the UK’s future skills need?

If AI is the boss, workers are going to need a new charter of rights

Frances O'Grady

A reinvention fund for (truly) lifelong learning

It’s time to counter political short-termism with an ‘OBR’ for future skills

Margaret Heffernan

Regeneration game

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A once-in-a-lifetime energy transformation

Why refreezing the Arctic is far more sensible than it sounds

Decarbonising concrete is possible, but only with an equally solid timetable

Dervilla Mitchell

It’s time to power up neighbourhood energy transfers