Bryan Appleyard The Digital Generation (RSA Journal Winter 2011) discusses the points of view of cyber skeptics and cyber utopians – on the role, value and ethics of ‘immersive’ technologies. Especially relevant to our theme is his discussion of the ‘design ethics’ of gadgets and systems, and visions (commercial and political) of machines and information systems that can ‘change our lives from…
Steve Broome and Rebecca Daddow discuss a Whole Person Recovery (RSA Journal Winter issue 2010) – under which the results of the activity are paid for, rather than the condition-treatment. In this case, the focus is people who need help with drug and alcohol addictions. The person with the condition is centrally involved in choosing how their own condition will be…
quote from the Observer 22.04.2012, Rachel Cooke: “I received an email recently from PR agency Freud Communications. The email urged me to watch on YouTube a short film about the Labour peer and strategist Philip Gould, who died of esophageal cancer in November 2011. The film, When I Die, was made in the last fortnight of Gould’s life. “Philip was committed to…
Adam Phillips in ‘Equals’ discusses the connection between superiority and conflict and the necessity of requisite conflict in maintaining democracy: “When we envisage democratic politics from … an anti-essentialist perspective,” Chantal Mouffe writes In the Democratic Paradox, “we can begin to understand that for democracy to exist, no social agent should be able to claim any mastery of the foundation…
Below the radar of public debate, the coalition government in the UK has published a white paper which visualises a state in which all public services are ‘personalised’ (with the exception of security, justice, and defence). I have mind-mapped the main ideas in Open Public Services White Paper Mind Map This policy position reflects the dilemmas discussed in our post on…
This article was taken from the June 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired’s articles in print before they’re posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online. As a Silicon Valley-based networker, my job is grabbing other people’s attention on Twitter and Facebook so that I can become ubiquitous. I…
I want to think about information – since information seems is a part of what gets exchanged in intimate exchange, and intimate innovation. We live in an information age; information – especially words and images – flood back and forth, ranked, valued and sorted by how much they mean to us – how much evidence of connection is embedded in…
Charles Edquist: ‘Economists around the world are unanimous in believing that innovation is the most important element in the creation of welfare’ (quoted in the Idea Book)
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