Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Monday, 28 January 2019

Government wants to control you, business just wants to flog you stuff. I know which I prefer.

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 Rich people running large companies don't want you to be poor. Really they don't. Those people want you to be rich because when y...
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Sunday, 12 August 2018

Citizen juries - another daft idea dreamed up in Whitehall

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What, I hear you shout! How can the idea of "giving communities a more direct role in decision-making" be a bad idea? Surely this...
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Friday, 13 July 2018

There's been plenty of economic progress since 2008 - you're just not measuring it

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The problem with economics, I find, is that too often it becomes trapped inside the limits of what it measures. If we haven't attached a...
Thursday, 19 April 2018

If there's a global technology race, Europe is going to lose.

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This is clear from an interview in Der Speigel with Pedro Domingos, author of 'The Master Algorithm' (which, we're told sits on ...
Friday, 13 October 2017

52 things that are more important than Brexit - including mushrooms

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I know it seems that Brexit (or not-Brexit for that matter) is the most significant and momentous thing that has happened anywhere or anywhe...
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Thursday, 27 July 2017

Now, about those robots...

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From Deirdre McCloskey : If the nightmare of technological unemployment were true, it would already have happened, repeatedly and massively...
Monday, 6 March 2017

An Evil Marketer comments on data analytics in political campaigning

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Back in the 1970s a man called Richard Webber was working at the UK government's centre for Environmental Studies. This, more or less, w...
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Saturday, 18 February 2017

Things are seldom as simple as they seem...

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I'm discussing Council budgets and we get to the matter of shared services and specifically sharing back office functions (things lik...
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Monday, 9 January 2017

Great technology but lousy business - the urban farming revolution that isn't

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There's an article in the New Yorker about 'vertical farming' - this is the use of redundant urban spaces to create farms: No...
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Sunday, 1 January 2017

2017: Another year of human progress beckons. Let's celebrate!

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Another year crawls coughing and spluttering from the ashes of its predecessor. Blinking in the watery light of a January morning, 2017, lik...
Saturday, 4 June 2016

Uberising home cooking...

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**** I guess this works in a place where you've a lot of women at home with a kitchen: Million Kitchen is an aggregator and delivery se...
Friday, 11 March 2016

Stuff to read (including a brief Friday Fungus)

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We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for mushrooms: A fossil dating from 440 million years ago is not only the oldest example of a f...
Wednesday, 9 March 2016

How to save the high street - don't employ anybody

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**** So it seems : Customers simply use their cellphones to unlock the door with a swipe of the finger and scan their purchases. All they n...
Thursday, 18 February 2016

Don't laugh, really...don't laugh

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**** The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) thinks planning is needed for technology development: ‘City planners are uniquely placed to...
Friday, 4 December 2015

Will the gig economy kill planning?

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**** From California Planning and Development Report : But how can you possibly plan for and control land uses when every bedroom is a ...
Friday, 9 October 2015

If we're not planning for 'robocars', we are planning wrongly.

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**** OK we're talking about America here but the point remains a strong one : The rise of robocars may accelerate metro area decentrali...
Tuesday, 17 February 2015

The World's Most Important Thinkers...discussed (and they aren't economists)

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Over at a magazine called Prospect (which badges itself rather self-importantly as "The Leading Magazine of Ideas") they're...
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Sunday, 15 June 2014

Coding is either an everyday basic skill or an elite profession - it can't be both

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**** Let's start by mentioning that I can't write code - indeed I would know where to start. But I know it is important and that t...
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Wednesday, 4 June 2014

Some thoughts on a £364m question.

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**** The front page of Bradford's Telegraph & Argus was splashed with the terrible truth about health spending - a £364m 'spe...
Saturday, 18 January 2014

We have IVF technology why shouldn't women use it?

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**** The Chief Medical Officer has put on her official frown and wagged her finger at women : Professor Dame Sally Davies, Chief Med...