Author: KB
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Street-level innovation & Building meso-narratives.
Really good report out this week from an excellent acquaintance, Rachel Coldicutt, who runs Careful Industries. It is possible to rapidly spark a culture of inclusive innovation across the UK, that begins in neighbourhoods and forms a golden network of locally rooted community incubator organisations, supported by long-term investment and clear success measures. As well…
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The Future of Work and Wellbeing
It’s been quiet around here, mostly because my energies have almost exclusively been focused delivering a conference and 180 page report for the closing of the Pissarides Review into the Future of Work and Wellbeing. This is a major, 3-year research project completed with multi-million funding from the Nuffield Foundation exploring how AI and automation…
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14 hallmarks of fascism
Excellent piece from back in 1996 in the New York Review of Books that came across my timeline this week – Umberto Eco on 14 hallmarks of fascism. Highly recommended read. They really are extraordinarily prescient. In summary: The question I’ve been asking myself is this: how does fascism end? Is war required? Or does…
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Poetry Reading – Sunday!
If you’re in London area this coming weekend, I’m going to be doing a slot at a poetry reading on Sunday, 1-3pm. The quality of the contributors is generally very high, so it should be a great event regardless of my input… but I’m looking forward to throwing some stuff out there. It’s at Rocket…
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God-Like on BBC Talkback
Lovely to be invited onto William Crawley’s Talkback show on BBC Radio today. William has a PhD in philosophy, and was ordained too, and is an excellent presenter. The show was digging into the issues presented by the government’s announcement yesterday of the AI Action Plan. What I’ve been concerned about is that this plan…
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Darwin Award Nominee – Rigging ChatGPT to an Assault Rifle
This will either end badly for him. Or for all of us. Truly, the Age of Stupid 😬