28 June 2009 | Management Today, July 1989

One small step

It took the Apollo mission for man to come to terms with the mechanics of himself and of the man machine interface. Today, space has other lessons to offer, but it remains instructive to designers on Earth 32kB

26 June 2009 | spiked review of books

Gladwell: hero or zero?

Malcolm Gladwell’s latest bestseller, Outliers, has its moments. In the end, however, its treatment of why individuals and groups ‘make it’ in the worlds of work and education operates as an up-market compilation of liberal prejudices

June 2009 | Special to Woudhuysen.com

Paying in cash: more than the strange pastime of a few

Contactless debit cards, the decline of cheques and the rise, in Korea, of payments made by mobile phones: all raise the spectre of a cashless Britain. But that will never happen 164kB

15 June 2009 | spiked

Risk-taking, R&D and the recession

The woeful level of Western investment in R&D reveals much about the capitalists’ state of mind

27 May 2009 | spiked

An R&D recession

Today’s economic crisis springs from years and years of under-investment in research and development

1 May 2009 | spiked

The myth that New Labour is pro-nuclear

Everyone from big business to greens imagines that British government policy favours nuclear energy. It doesn’t

26 March 2009 | Computing

Now is not the time to lose faith in R&D

If regulators get the better of innovators, it will only serve to prolong the recession

24 March 2009 | New Civil Engineer

Science, engineering and the two Cabinets

How many of our leaders in New Labour and the Conservatives have any background in technology or business?

11 March 2009 | New Civil Engineer

Airports: the case for three Heathrows

Why it makes sense to even out international flights over England’s green and pleasant land

February 2009 | spiked

Praise for Energise!

A top sociologist has kind words for what is in fact a searing polemic

15 January 2009 | Blueprint

Sex, men and cars

Two new books on cars have much – but not everything – to recommend them 457kB

12 January 2009 | spiked

The CFLs are on, but nobody’s home

The mad green war on light bulbs won’t save much electricity - it’s about enforcing moral rectitude in the home

8 January 2009 | BBC Breakfast

Lights: Behind the controversy on compact fluorescents vs incandescents

Keeping the lights on is more vital than improving the energy efficiency of lighting products

11 September 2008 | Computing

Is man's best friend a robot's worst enemy?

As consumers start to explore the benefits of mobile robotics, a potential rival to the technology is emerging from an unlikely source

17 August 2008 | Design magazine, July 1982

Interim report

Interview with the late Herman Kahn, the man who pretty much invented forecasting