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James Woudhuysen
Take a PEW, hear a sermon
With three new tracts on planning, energy and waste, the government shows it would rather change our habits than encourage innovation.
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| Tuesday 24 April 2007 |
Martyn Perks
The tyranny of technology
Promoting healthy eating, tackling truancy, improving 'social inclusion': the great potential of IT is being used for instrumental political ends.
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| Friday 16 March 2007 |
Frank Furedi
This month: Grumpiness
What's behind the fashion for labelling cultural critics who are dissatisfied with the present (such as himself) as ‘grumpy old men’?
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| Monday 19 February 2007 |
James Heartfield
Just another brick in the wall?
Lynsey Hanley’s book Estates: An Intimate History titillates the Guardian-reading class’s fascination with a poor and excluded ‘underclass’.
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| Wednesday 14 February 2007 |
Theresa Clifford
Is Wikipedia part of a new ‘global brain’?
Everyone from Time to TV networks is singing the praises of user-generated ‘people’s content’ on the worldwide web. But is it reliable?
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| Tuesday 31 October 2006 |
James Woudhuysen
Transport innovation: slowing to a standstill
New Labour’s deep-seated hostility to popular mobility is holding back advances on roads, railways and in the air.
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| Thursday 21 September 2006 |
Emily Hill
The University of the Smart Mob
spiked gets an exclusive preview of the new – and very blue – Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University.
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| Tuesday 8 August 2006 |
spiked-debate
Surveying the next generation
Highlights from the spiked/Orange survey ‘Enlightening the Future 2024: Key Challenges for the Next Generation’.
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| Wednesday 16 November 2005 |
Norman Lewis
Innovation in an era of caution
A technology researcher argues that while business buzzes on about 'innovation', there's a dearth of real invention.
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| Thursday 16 September 2004 |
Martyn Perks
Disabling innovation
Setting legal standards for making websites 'accessible' to all won't help web designers, or users.
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| Tuesday 24 August 2004 |
Jonny Thakkar
Reclaiming innovation
Report on the spiked-seminar.
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| Wednesday 26 May 2004 |
Azeem Azhar
Harnessing innovation
Two new books attempt to rethink intellectual property for the information age.
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| Friday 19 July 2002 |
Sandy Starr
Blind to users' needs
Making the web accessible by disabled people doesn't necessarily make it usable.
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