Category: Technology
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Frictionless: why free-flows of information are not doing us any good
“Recruitment… it’s just totally broken” This week I was at an event in Bournemouth visiting the excellent Spear project there, and the collaboration they were doing with a job agency, Pollen. One of the young people on the panel that formed part of the event is an advisor in a job centre, and she, and…
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Supporting creative futures in arts, culture and AI…
Was great to chair this panel at the British Library as part of the official AI Fringe a couple of weeks ago. The panel featured ex-Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Thangham Debbonaire, who will shortly be joining the House of Lords, alongside: Victoria Ivanova, R&D Strategic Lead, Serpentine GalleriesSuhair Khan, Founder…
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The Portrait of the Artist as… a Canary in a Coal Mine
A privilege today to chair a fantastic panel at the AI Fringe event at the British Library in London, mirroring the AI Action Summit going on in Paris. I was there both in my work role – helping lead the CREAATIF project along with the Turing Institute and Queen Mary University that’s been investigating how…
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Yes, the audiobook for God-like is coming…
Thanks to everyone who’s requested this. Obviously, I’ve taken the pirate approach… taking control of the means of production… 🏴☠️ … but I’m fortunate to have some good audio production resources built up with various work projects and band stuff over the years. It’s actually quite enjoyable to do… but will require some honing, so…
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Tech Bros as ‘Benefit Queens’
Very interesting piece here that’s resurfaced from 2022. In short – Elon and his super-wealthy tech bros are very often critical of federal government giving too many handouts – and employing too many in government roles – but are actually the biggest ‘benefit queens’ going, benefiting to the tune of billions support for their companies:…
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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…