Worldview

Please note that Future Surge has been closed down at the end of 2023. The content on this page will be archived elsewhere during the first months of 2024

This page gives more details of the core thinking behind the Future Surge movement:

  • How we see the world (our “worldview”)
  • How we intend to be active (our “activism”)
  • The philosophy that guides us.

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If you still have questions in your mind, take a look at our FAQ page, where you might find answers.

The next 10-20 years will be pivotal in human history

  • Change will be exponential rather than linear
    • Slow, slow change will give way to fast, fast change
  • Change will be combinatorial rather than isolated
    • Surprises will be multiplied rather than just added
  • Artificial intelligence is on the point of changing everything
    • It’s the same with other rapidly emerging technologies
  • The outcome depends on us

The future starts now: we can’t put it off until later

  • Action is needed urgently
    • We’re almost too late already
  • It’s time to prepare for an accelerating transformational surge
    • It’s time to discern future options more clearly
    • It’s time to join and build a coalition of the willing

A profoundly better future is within our grasp

  • Provided we take wise advantage of technological change
  • Dramatically enhanced health, intelligence, and emotional and social wellbeing
    • Available to everyone, should they choose it
  • A surge of creativity, diversity, security, liberty, enlightenment
  • A sustainable superabundance
  • A “positive Singularity” (a change unlike anything that has happened before)

A much worse future awaits us, if we are distracted, confused, intimidated, or divided

  • Problems growing exponentially and combinatorially
  • Technology misused and out-of-control
    • More and more people left behind, alienated, misled, depressed, dehumanised
  • A surge of irrationality, corruption, broken infrastructure, environmental chaos
  • A new dark age for all (or even worse)
  • A “negative Singularity” (a change unlike anything that has happened before)

It’s time to take back control of technology

  • The development and deployment of fast-changing technologies needs to be guided by a powerful set of principles
    • These principles will make the difference between reaching a “positive singularity” and a “negative singularity”
    • We call these principles the “Singularity Principles”
  • These principles provide a whole system perspective
    • Transparency, Resilience, Verification, Vigilance
    • Agility, Accountability, Consensus, Diversity
    • Proactive risk management
  • Human oversight of cataclysmically disruptive technologies
    • Steering, acceleration, brakes – in the right combination at the right time

There’s no better future without a better present

  • There’s no better future without a better vision
  • There’s no better future without a better roadmap
  • There’s no better future without better education
  • There’s no better future without better politics

Future Surge activism

A registered political party, but more than a political party

  • Future Surge is a movement to revitalise the social and political landscape

Party political activism

  • Future Surge develops and highlights practical political policies
  • Future Surge supports candidates in political elections
  • Future Surge provides representatives for interviews and events
  • Other parties are encouraged to adopt our policies as their own
    • We don’t mind copy cats!
    • (Provided these policies are copied as priorities, not just as tick box items!)

A catalyst for wider change

  • A catalyst to prompt change in all political parties
  • A catalyst to revitalise the public discussion
  • A catalyst to uplift society’s priorities

Targeting significant public impact by 2024

  • Supporting candidates in mayoral elections in the UK in 2024
  • Aiming to reach (as a first major milestone) 5% support in opinion polls “would you consider voting for this candidate?”
  • Gaining positive media attention
  • Putting our ideas in the forefront of public discussion

Future Surge philosophy

Neither “right” nor “left” but “up”

  • Not only for more equality of access for all, but also for more sustainable abundance for all
  • The wise embrace of technology will hugely benefit everyone
  • Uplifted businesses, uplifted economies, uplifted education, uplifted politics
  • Uplifted relationships and uplifted social contract
  • Uplifting the environment too – greater wellbeing for all sentience
  • Not “Fully Automated Luxury Communism” but “Fully Automated Luxury Society”

Active transhumanism

  • Harnessing the radical transition of the human condition
    • Transcending ages-old limits of biology, psychology, sociology, and philosophy
  • The future can be much better than the past, and much better than the present
  • Avoiding complacency or fatalism – the future is in our hands
    • Not “technological determinism” but “transhuman determinism”
  • Not just ideas or wishful thinking, but concerted human action
  • Championing science, data, openness
  • Individual empowerment, mutual responsibility, and social welfare
  • Click here to find out more about transhumanism