Future Perfect edited by Nick Temple, Stephanie Wienrich and Retta Bowen, Institute for Social Inventions, £15.00, ISBN 0948826592 Reviewed by Simon Ings
ASSEMBLED from original contributions, newspaper articles and Web trawls, Future Perfect is a curate’s egg. It’s meant to be. It’s also great fun. Did you know the police in Blackpool, Lancashire, hand out lollipops outside nightclubs, to keep the noise down?
It’s a compendium of ideas – some speculative, some already implemented – about how to improve the world. What sort of idea works best? This kind of social engineering is lumpen and plays too easily into professional self-interest – some therapists and counsellors…
