4 September 2007 | spiked

Towards a bigger innovation footprint

Corporate Social Responsibility in the mobile IT sector is a smokescreen that hides a lamentable record on innovation

30 August 2007 | spiked

Let’s research our own R&D record

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development may be right that the Chinese are sluggish on research and development. But the same is true of America and Europe

18 August 2007 | Management Today, 1989

Back to the future again

Review of Steven P Schnaars, Megamistakes: Forecasting and the Myth of Rapid Technological Change, Free Press, 1989

17 August 2007 | Design Week, 14 June 1991

Soaring flights of fancy: Howard Hughes, the Spruce Goose and American power

Back in 1991, when it had only just won the Cold War, the US looked shakier than it does today. And yet...

16 August 2007 | spiked

It’s official: the masses are not gullible

A new British government survey suggests that lots of us have an agnostic or atheist attitude to the cult of environmentalism

8 August 2007 | Spiked

This land is our land

If New Labour is serious about making homes more affordable, then it should allow members of the public to buy land and build homes where they please

3 August 2007 | IT Week

HDTV shows the way for online comms

Directed at entertainment, high-definition TV could also prove the turning point for video conferencing

2 August 2007 | Special to Woudhuysen.com

Interaction design and the failure of post-modernism

Review of Gerhard M Buurman, Ed, Total interaction: theory and practice of a new paradigm for the design disciplines, Birkhäuser, 2006

August 2007 | Blueprint

Shuffling towards Bethlehem

So what rough beast, its hour come round at last, emerges for the worlds of architecture and design, from Gordon Brown’s summer rejig of ministerial posts?

24 July 2007 | spiked

Three cheers for China’s ‘economic miracle’

Ignore the Yellow Peril view of Chinese economic growth as dirty and dangerous. There are good reasons to welcome China’s leaps forward

12 July 2007 | spiked

Let's fight back against the new Model Army

Like voodoo forecasts, computer models of climate change are being used to stifle political discussion and resign man to his Fate

6 July 2007 | IT Week

Youth worship will put economy on its knees

The reasons given for venerating “tech-savvy” Generation Y are not new and yet again fail to convince

June 2007 | Asian Hotel and Catering Times

Future traveller tribes

A new way of classifying air travellers has implications for hoteliers 360kB

25 June 2007 | IT Week

B2B e-merchants must raise their game

The leading web sites for office products epitomise the general lack of imagination in B2B e-commerce

21 June 2007 | spiked review of books

Is the Red Dragon a green threat?

Ignore the scaremongering of environmentalist writers and thinkers: China should be free to develop as it wishes