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‘Lifestyles will have to be redesigned' A Guardian journalist’s ranting about the ‘neglect, greed and human filth’ of modern China shows that new prejudices about a Green Peril have replaced old fears of the Yellow Peril Don’t let the miserabilists clip humanity’s wings Flight is one of man’s greatest achievements. Let’s challenge the greens and officials who want to snuff it out An engaging tale, packed with myths Christian Salmon’s book rightly notes the increasing use of narrative in modern life, but his ‘anti-capitalist’ instincts get in the way of understanding why Interview on innovation and the UK general election The oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico shows the need to think big in undersea robots and every kind of technological innovation. British politicians, wake up! The defects of business models New ways of fleecing customers are no substitute for the hard graft of research, development and successful technological innovation Election 2010: question everything on innovation! This article explores the roots of Britain's current neglect of scientific and technological innovation, and calls for the creation of new industries for the twenty-first century Sights and insights from Mumbai and Kerala How the state is a roadblock to progress in innovation Obsessed with red tape, visionless governments are holding back the kind of big and risky developments society needs Do we need a more venturesome economy? In the world economy, R&D, laboratories and national competitiveness aren’t everything – but they count for more than Amar Bhidé suggests Innovation: principles, not models! Innovation cannot prosper without curiosity, serendipity, unpredictable outcomes, inspiring vision, and sheer hard work. These things are principles, not models In innovation, as we look toward a new decade, it's a moment to broaden horizons and demand much more: herewith the first of 14 Principles of Innovation, to be published as BIG POTATOES, the London Manifesto for Innovation Still no clear policy on nuclear energy New Labour’s commitment to nuclear is half-hearted at best, and goes hand in hand with more policing of our energy use Paper to the conference Insight Shanghai on how to translate social trends into new products – new technologies and emerging patterns of use
Interview at the Connecticut home of the late Dick Hess, co-inventor of Paint By Numbers and one of the 20th century's greatest illustrators and graphic designers Saul Bass (1920 –1996) was one of America's very top post-war graphic designers. Seven years before he died, I talked to him in his studio on Sunste Boulevard Next Page |
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