James Harkin
James Harkin is SIRC's consultant forecaster. He is Director of Talks at the ICA in London and writes regularly for The Financial Times and The Guardian. Between 1996 and 1999 he taught and lectured in social and political theory at the University of Oxford, after which he worked as a social forecaster or 'futurologist' for a variety of different agencies around the world.
He was the associate producer of Adam Curtis's three-part series, The Trap: Whatever happened to our dream of freedom?, which aired on BBC2 in March 2007. His book, Big Ideas: The Essential Guide To The Latest Thinking, based on his weekly columns for The Guardian, was published in February 2008 by Atlantic Books, and has been translated into Polish, Spanish and Korean. His new book Cyburbia: The dangerous idea that's changing how we live and who we are, is published in Feb 2009 by Little, Brown.
He can be contacted at james AT james harkin.co.uk