This lunchtime I attended this event with author and journalist Nicole Kobie (@njkobie) on Will we ever get flying cars? Rethinking the future, hosted by Nesta as part of its Future Signals event series, chaired by William Woodward. Kobie is author of The Long History of the Future: Why tomorrow’s technology still isn’t here (Bloomsbury …
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On 13–14 July in Cambridge, England, I am co-curating a summit for Civic Future on the theme of Progress, entitled The Great Stagnation Summit
This July I am co-curating a summit on the theme of Progress, entitled The Great Stagnation summit, which will be a two-day gathering in Cambridge (England) to examine the current state of thinking around progress, industrial strategy, innovation and R&D and how to devise and deliver policies for long-term growth, radical improvements in living standards, …
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Precis: In this week’s A Point of View, BBC Radio 4, David Goodhart argues that the focus on manners in British politics may be a function of the main parties’ programmes being hard to differentiate. He believes this is a result of the impact of the Leave vote, which forced both parties to re-orientate towards …
I am interested to learn about Britain Remade, a coalition for economic growth in Britain, of which they say, ‘It just needs a voice.’ In the Sun newspaper on Saturday they talk of how ‘We can shape the world with our science and engineering again’, and it reports on a survey Britain Remade commissioned which reveals …
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