My essay in the pamphlet Five Critical Essays on Growth, edited by Austin Williams of the Future Cities Project, has just been published (read it on Spy). The other contributors are Phil Mullan (@Phil_Mullan) Charlie Winstanley (@cfwinstanley) Mark Iddon (@Mark_Iddon) and Shiv Malik (@shivmalik). Foreword by Austin Williams (@Future_Cities) [ed.] and afterword by Patrik …
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A response to the Digital Britain Interim Report, 2009
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/digital-britain-the-interim-report-january-2009 In January 2009 the UK Department for Culture Media and Sport published the Digital Britain: The Interim Report, lead by former Ofcom chief executive Stephen Carter, which is a ‘plan to secure Britain’s place at the forefront of the global digital economy’. The interim report contains more than 20 recommendations on: next-generation networks, universal …
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Panel: The Social Impact of the Web, 2017
This Friday [May 25, 2007] I am speaking on a panel at the RSA Conference The Social Impact of the Web: Society, Government and the Internet in London. I will be on the panel with Bronwyn Kunhardt, co-founder of Social Media Consensus and Polecat Ltd, and former Director of Citizenship at Microsoft UK, and M …
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Letter: In defence of the Design Museum
The objections of Terence Conran, prompted by James Dyson’s resignation, to trends in the Design Museum’s programme (Guardian, Letters, ‘Concepts of design’ October 5, 2004, in response to ‘Dyson resigns seat at Design Museum’ Jonathan Glancey, Guardian, September 28, 2004) are quite understandable and correct. However, the Design Museum is being pushed in its current direction …