The public sector isn’t doomed to technological failure, but cultural hang-ups must be overcome
There is no intelligence without the mind and computers are fundamentally mindless
Smart guns, smart cars, smart houses – the future has arrived, but who’s in control?
Or: Why I regard myself as a “mercantilist free trader”.
The art world should be grateful for politicians who don’t take too close an interest in culture
The perception that we have no special place in the universe is the basis of contemporary liberalism
Before the Big Society, David Cameron’s big idea was the ‘Post-Bureaucratic Age’, which he said was dawning.
One way or another we’re interacting with systems designed to gather information about who are and what we do.
The Department for Education has issued guidance in which running is identified as a suitable punishment for misbehaving pupils
What if people stop paying the licence fee – not because they’re dodging it, but because they no longer watch broadcast television?
I would not swap my life for that of the man who was once regarded as the richest and most powerful man in the known world.
A walk along the ground floor of the Science Museum in London is an astonishing journey in time. One moment you stand at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, looking at the earliest steam locomotives, then, before you know it, you’re in the Space Age, looking at the technologies that flew us to the Moon. […]
Progress on any nuclear technology is unavoidably slow, requiring a major long-term commitment of resources and the close involvement of the state
The key battleground for the twenty-first century won’t be an arms race; it will be an education race.