Car futurology is fertile territory for a museum devoted to collecting and studying 20th-century objects.

ECONOMIST: Car design

Mr Schwartz owes his cachet to his background as a scenario planner, which is about as respectable as futurology gets.

ECONOMIST: A perfect day

Futurology is a dangerous business, and it is true that most of the important arguments about mobile communications at the moment are to do with technology or regulation bandwidth, spectrum use and so on.

ECONOMIST: A wireless world

The overall effect is deflationary: she shows, example by example, how much better it is to argue about the rights and wrongs of techniques in the here and now than to dazzle or terrify ourselves with techno-futurology.

ECONOMIST: Bioethics