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‘Travelling to the Meeting house is a bit of a pain these days, relying on the driverless taxis.’

Virtually real: Tim Landsman is inspired by the Future of British Quakerism conference

‘Travelling to the Meeting house is a bit of a pain these days, relying on the driverless taxis.’

by Tim Landsman 1st November 2024

At the recent Future of British Quakerism conference, Paul Parker offered various scenarios for what our Society could look like in years to come. It made me think: twenty-six years ago my mobile phone didn’t have a camera, and it struggled with text messaging. My home computer could only really run one application at a time, and I was thinking about whether I needed a home fax machine. So where could technology take Quakers in another twenty-six years?