I am increasingly preoccupied with how we Research, Learn, and Create meaning – with a view to how we affect the world.
Video: Britain’s Greatest Invention, 2017
Video: Britain’s Greatest Invention, 2017 This new BBC Two show, Britain’s Greatest Invention, at 20:30 this evening, is hosted by Dr Hannah Fry (@FryRsquared), with celebrities championing objects from the Science Museum. The objects will be they will championing are: the fridge, steam engine, antibiotics, jet engine, mobile phone and TV.I should hold judgement on …
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Informal, self-organised global learning works!
Informal, self-organised global learning works! I have helped organise a group of 10 autodidacts in Progress Studies for a weekly 2-hour online seminar on ‘21st Century Civilization’, taking place over 11 weeks, covering subjects from Civilizational Decay to The Psychology of Modern Elites. For each seminar, we read and prepare; sharing notes in advance; ask …
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30 years at the spy.co.uk domain
Three decades ago, I registered the domain spy.co.uk and started sending and receiving email at [email protected] About a year earlier had acquired a mobile phone, on Orange, the upstart and consumer-focused telco created by Hutchison. The development of the domain name system, on top of TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol), Ethernet and other data transport …
Guide to reviewing non-fiction books
For my Introduction to Global Entrepreneurship course at Accent Global Learning I have set my students an assignment to review a book on our long reading list. I would value colleagues’ thoughts on my rationale for a book review and description of approaches to this activity. This is not an easy exercise, though it is easier than …
Is “technology moving faster than ever now”?
This lunchtime I attended this event with author and journalist Nicole Kobie (@njkobie) on Will we ever get flying cars? Rethinking the future, hosted by Nesta as part of its Future Signals event series, chaired by William Woodward. Kobie is author of The Long History of the Future: Why tomorrow’s technology still isn’t here (Bloomsbury …
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