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Display of Documents below - Documents below are displayed in alphabetical order. If you want to view those most recently published then select the Ideas Home page. You will also find more information about the nature of these Ideas documents and how to prepare and submit documents.
The 'featured documents' in the slide show are ones that we think are of particular interest and if you are new to Probably42, good ones to take a look at first.
This document 'A Manifesto for Society in the Artificial Intelligence Future' version 6.11 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 Documents and Discussion Documents... 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 »
This is the Combined Output from two Probably42 Discussion groups on the topic of:Levelling Up - What is it? Why is it necessary? How should it be done? What counts as success?.. More »
This document is a 'considered output' of Probably42. It takes as input the best ideas generated in the individual Probably42 group meetings and incorporates additional ideas generated as a result. It presents these in a structured manner with a summary list of the ideas early on in the document... More »
Coronavirus situation as an opportunity for inspiration This document summarises some of the opportunities for the future as a result of both responses to the situation and because of the watershed opportunity it creates for improving the country. This version 1.4 has minor updates to the version originally published in April 2020... More »
This document puts forward a proposal for a new UK Voting System to overcome the deficiencies of both 'First Past the Post' and 'Proportional Representation'. This version is version 1.8 taking in comments from a number of reviewers to add clarification. It is linked to other documents on improving our democratic system. In particularhttp://www.probably42.net/documents/1/69/transforming-our-democracy-and-political-system-for-the-21st-centuryandhttp://www.probably42.net/documents/1/68/chamber-of-the-future.. More »
This paper puts forward a new approach called Principled Capitalism. We believe Principled Capitalism, when applied to organisations, can address many of the current issues in society and at the same time set in place an enhanced system that is designed to benefit all, not just the few, on an on-going basis. In the UK we have enough experience of capitalism to know that it broadly works for us but also to understand some of the Pros and Cons. Principled Capitalism is an attempt to now move on a stage both addressing the Cons and accentuating the Pros. As a result resetting our expectations of organisations operating in the UK. Essentially the objective is to change our society over time to be based on merit and reward merit, whether organisational merit or personal merit, at every turn. The objective of Principled Capitalism is also to be relevant to the long-term and future generations, not just the short-term. In particular to take account of the speed of technological change and in particular the high potential but likely disruption of some of the advances such as Artificial Intelligence... More »