Ideas for our Future
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Ideas Documents - This section is for Ideas that are reasonably well-developed e.g. a paper on a subject, or the output of a Probably42 Discussion meeting. You can also create Supporting Documents for additional information e.g. an explanation.
Document Category – This is used largely by Probably42 to identify the status of a document e.g. a ‘Discussion Output’ document contains a mix of ideas without too much qualification of how good they are. A ‘Considered Proposal’ document however is a formal output of Probably42 bringing together the best ideas on a subject and more often than not underpinning the Transformative Ideas selected for the Manifesto of Ideas. The full list of categories is described behind the 'Ideas A-Z' menu item.
Ideas Blog - The Ideas Blog sub-section provides an alternative way of publishing ideas in an Ideas blog.
Guidelines - Please read the Helpful Ideas Guidelines before inputting any Papers or Proposals.
Display Options - Documents below are displayed according to the date they were first published, with the most recent first. If you want to view them in alphabetical order, select the Ideas A-Z tab in the menu below. You can also view just those documents in a category on that A-Z page, or by clicking on the Category name in the header of a specific document.
This is a 'Considered Proposal' in our series based on initial discussions of the Probably42 discussion groups.The full title is: The Implications for Society of Longer Healthy Lives More »
This 'Considered Proposal' is built on a discussion about Party Manifestos which can be seen at Party Manifesto Preparation. It is presented as an ITT (Invitation to Tender) to reflect the fact that we think parties should be required to present Manifestos in a way that better allows comparison and also offers a short summary of a few pages that can realistically be read by all interested voters. More »
This discussion output complements previous output on the same topic at Party Manifestos.The two documents together have been used to create the document Invitation to Tender for the role of H.M. Government which is a Considered Proposal of what we would like to see in Party Manifestos to improve them and their accessibility to us all. More »
This document is a copy of our Feedback and Recommendations to the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change with respect to their excellent document A New National Purpose: Innovation Can Power the Future of BritainOur recommendations are published here and are particularly important in our view, because they cover what we believe are omissions from the Government approach to AI and are largely absent from debate, yet are fundamental to our future as an AI Society. More »
This is the combined output from two of our Probably42 discussion groups. A look at this subject was prompted by the recent Gordon Brown report on Constitutional Reform for the Labour Party. Another key input, although produced some time ago, was the summary report by the House of Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee in March 2015. More »
We recently generated this two page document on how we might tackle the UK problem of largely stagnant productivity to help spread visibility of these ideas. It is drawn from our Manifesto of Ideas and other of our 'Considered Proposals'. More »
This document focuses on 3 specific issues and opportunities relating to our future AI Society over the next 20 years that don't currently appear to being addressed, but which are fundamental to a successful future. It was produced as an input to the APPG (All Party Parliamentary Group) on Artificial Intelligence.A much fuller coverage of recommendations relating to the opportunities of AI are covered in our three documents on AI which were written in sequence and each relates to the previous one.Artificial Intelligence - Managing the Future&nb.. More »
This document on Elderly Social Care is one in our series of Considered Proposals on the subject. It completely replaces the original discussion documents on the topic. More »
Updated February 2024. This document 'A Manifesto for Society in the Artificial Intelligence Future' version 8.4 is the flagship document of Probably42. It brings together the best transformative and pragmatic proposals of Probably42 in summary form. It is underpinned by the full range of other Considered Proposals and Discussion Documents. It includes Transformative Strategies and Ideas in the following areas: Accelerating Innovation and Ensuring it Contributes Positively Updating the practice of Democracy and Government for.. More »
This document is one in our series of 'Considered Documents'. It is slightly different in that it is a supporting document for other proposals, including in our Manifesto of Ideas, about Wellbeing. It looks at Wellbeing in detail and puts forward a number of proposed Individual and National Measures of Wellbeing. More »