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Here Comes Everybody
Clay Shirky is speaking at Demos this coming Monday. Event details here.
If you haven't read his new book Here Comes Everybody then you should stick it on your list for summer reading. If you can't make it to the event we'll be podcasting Clay's presentation - you can see other presentations here and here.
from : charlieedwards
9th July 2008
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TechnoPresident?
In 2006, David Cameron famously described Gordon Brown as an 'analogue politician in a digital age'. It's an image painted consistently by the opposition - a man out of touch with the pace of change. Whatever the merits of these allusions, a similar dynamic seems to be playing out in the US, between Obama and McCain. That's been picked up in the coverage of this year's Personal Democracy Forum Conference.
from : petebradwell
24th June 2008
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Making it up as we go along
Synthetic Biology has again found its way onto the Today programme. The prompt this time is an admirable report (pdf) from bioscience funders the BBSRC, who asked social scientists Paul Martin and Andrew Balmer to map the social and ethical questions raised by this increasingly frenetic science. But the BBC's report is inevitably framed by Craig Venter, the energetic and unapologetic face of all things synthetic. Six months ago, when we hosted Craig Venter, I was convinced that the UK had a...
from : jackstilgoe
10th June 2008
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Is politics stuck in the present?
As the Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill ducks and weaves through parliament, the debate around it reveals the poverty of the politics of the future. Politicians are pretty happy talking about VALUES, INTERESTS, THE EVIDENCE and even ETHICS. So abortion gets the headlines, alongside daddies for test tube babies. When it comes to the research aspects - hybrids, embryonic vs adult stem cells and all that - the evidence and the ethics are only part of the story. So Ann Widdecombe insists...
from : jackstilgoe
21st May 2008
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The way to go
James Wilsdon reviews three new books on death and aging.
from : jameswilsdon
4th March 2008
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Digital Leap
The Post Office's campaign follows the publication of a report from think tank Demos, which cites digital exclusion from technology such as the Internet as a major social problem, particularly among the over-50s.
from : charlieedwards
28th February 2008
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Nalini P. Kotamraju
Homepage of sociologist Nalini P. Kotamraju
from : petebradwell
27th February 2008
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Q&A: "Britain should unleash mass collaboration with India"
The Atlas of Idea, a series of four reports published by Demos, a UK think tank, looks at the pace and scale of scientific innovation in India, China and South Korea. James Wilsdon, science and innovation head, Demos, and Kirsten Bound, author, India: The Uneven Innovator, spoke to Narayani Ganesh in Delhi recently:
from : kirstenbound
3rd December 2007
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Atlas of ideas: Where India features prominently
India may have strengths like democracy, diversity, demography, interdependence and role models, but it can't become a global research giant unless it harnesses the strengths. By conventional metrics such as numbers of patents, the centres of innovation worldwide are the United States, Europe and Japan. Yet, two researchers from the influential British think tank Demos argue that the world’s future innovation hotspots are...
from : kirstenbound
26th November 2007
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The synthesizer
Demos has this morning hosted a round table with Craig Venter, controversial human genome projecteer and now spearhead of the next Next Big Thing: Synthetic Biology (or Synthetic Genomics if you prefer). Venter was engagingly open about the possibilities and pitfalls of Syn Bio, which promises to combine engineering with biology to design new lifeforms. He pointed to the possibilities of energy and fuel generation from new organisms and warned us that, if an innovative Siberian happened upon...
from : jackstilgoe
23rd October 2007
