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James Woudhuysen
A very conservative approach to innovation
ESSAY: The Lib-Con coalition is more concerned with controlling behaviour than forging a brave, hi-tech future.
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| Monday 26 July 2010 |
Neil Davenport
Why mad inventors don’t survive the Dragons’ Den
The hit BBC show reveals the bean-counting cautiousness and lack of entrepreneurial spirit of today’s capitalists.
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| Wednesday 7 July 2010 |
Tim Black
What’s the future for innovation?
Four commentators will debate the potential for IT and telecoms at Thursday night’s spiked debate in London.
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| Wednesday 31 March 2010 |
Norman Lewis
Google: a data-liberation army?
Google’s passion for the free flow of information, including in China, is based on business interests and naive politics.
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| Monday 22 March 2010 |
Tim Black
Google: the Godzilla of the World Wide Web?
Tim Black reports from last Thursday’s spiked debate at the Royal Society of Arts, which asked: ‘Is Google too big?’
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| Tuesday 16 March 2010 |
Jason Walsh
Google: an anti-capitalist scapegoat?
In the run-up to this week’s live spiked debate, Jason Walsh of forth magazine asks if Google's behaviour really is abnormal.
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| Monday 15 March 2010 |
Tim Black
Are we heading for ‘a privacy Chernobyl’?
Ahead of a live spiked debate, Simon Davies of Privacy International says Google should stop treating privacy as a pain.
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| Thursday 11 March 2010 |
Woudhuysen & Lewis
How the state is a roadblock to progress
Red tape-obsessed, visionless governments are holding back the kind of big and risky innovation society needs.
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| Wednesday 10 March 2010 |
Rob Killick
Google: a ‘frenemy’ of the internet generation
In the run-up to next week’s live spiked debate, Rob Killick says Google is neither ‘good’ nor ‘evil’ – it’s just a very big business.
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| Tuesday 21 July 2009 |
James Woudhuysen
Who’s afraid of electric vehicles?
Green opposition even to eco-friendly electric cars shows that what environmentalists really dislike is travel itself.
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| Monday 29 June 2009 |
James Woudhuysen
Let’s go back to the
moon — and beyond
As the 40th anniversary of the first manned moon landing approaches, backward attitudes here on Earth have tainted our view of lunar exploration.
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| Monday 15 June 2009 |
James Woudhuysen
Risk-taking, R&D and the recession
Contributing to the spiked/CMP debate on the future of business, an innovation expert demands real wealth creation.
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| Wednesday 27 May 2009 |
James Woudhuysen
An R&D recession
Today’s economic crisis partly springs from years and years of under-investment in research and development.
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| Friday 5 December 2008 |
Martyn Perks
This is no time to call the ‘design police’
By reorganising our lives around suspicion and the fear of crime, design can leave us feeling insecure - and less free.
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| Tuesday 23 September 2008 |
Martyn Perks
The best foundation for the web: open debate
Tim Berners-Lee’s new group aims for a ‘free and open’ web, but the idea of ‘rating’ content would close down discussion.
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| Thursday 21 August 2008 |
Martyn Perks
The rise and rise of 'anti-design'
Designers who focus on producing only meek and sustainable things are denying their own creativity and impact on the world.
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| Thursday 3 July 2008 |
Derbyshire and Raja
The World Wide Web is nothing like a brain
Contrary to what Wired argues, there is a world of difference between super-powerful computers and human thought.
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| Wednesday 21 May 2008 |
James Heartfield
Gordon Brown and the ghosts of innovation
James Heartfield reports from yesterday’s NESTA conference in London on the flailing PM’s vampiric relationship with the ‘innovation economy’.
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| Monday 19 May 2008 |
Norman Lewis
To see the future of the internet, look East
If Westerners could shake off their prejudices about ‘copycat’ Asians with ‘small hands’, they might just see the wonders of Asian web innovation.
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| Monday 11 June 2007 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Innovation in a time of caution
The live launch of the spiked/Pfizer survey ‘What is the Greatest Innovation?’ took a critical look at the i-word - that buzzword of our age.
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