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The future contains two things: stuff that's different to today and stuff that's the same. We pay a lot of attention to the former and not enough to the latter. This newsletter is a small attempt, using very boring charts, to redress that balance.
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The Millennial Tech Utopia (opens the original)
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Inwardly happy, outwardly angry (opens the original)
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Hello and welcome to September’s long read for paid subscribers. This one concerns The Bubble: that protective shield many UK consumers seem to cast around themselves to block out the chaos of the wider world. This piece has been adapted from a report first published on Trajectory’s Now & Next platform earlier this year. To read the full piece, either upgrade to a paid Slow Futures subscription or - for access to every deep dive, macro trend, trends briefing and Optimism Index
It’s a mean world after all (opens the original)
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The Burnham Bounce is Real (opens the original)
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Long Read: AI in 2026 (opens the original)
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Hello! The summer holidays have played a little fast and loose with the usual publication schedule here: this is August’s long read for paid subscribers, all about the state of AI in 2026. Next week, we’ll have our Optimism Index update (sharing some of August’s numbers - they’re good ones) and later in the month we’ll have a couple of typical Slow Futures posts: boring charts, no paywall and another long read behind that paywall. This long read has been adapted from a report first published on
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