Category: Culture
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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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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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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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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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Meta goes… meta
Welcome to 2025, the year where AI really does its best to embed itself in our lives, for which you can read: get under our skin and up our noses. Meta – the owners of Facebook / Insta etc – already came out of the blocks with the launch of a bunch of AI profiles…
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What Work Is Not – Future Narratives Lab
Last night I was presenting about work and technology at a panel event for Future Narratives Lab. FNL are a really great organisation who help organisations think through issues in a properly structured way that goes beyond the standard ‘workshop.’ Joining me were two wonderful people. Firstly, Emily Kenway – author of Who Cares –…