Author: James Woudhuysen
Climate protests
Sky News discussion on the climate change protests by Extinction Rebellion with George Monbiot and James Woudhuysen
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Chimp using Social Media
Sky News discussion on a chimp supposedly demonstrating an ability to use Social Media
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Climate change and the need for energy R&D
Sky News discussion on climate change and the need for energy R&D
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The car-industry crisis has nothing to do with Brexit
China is racing ahead of Europe in producing electric cars
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Mobilität als Dienstleistung
Für die mobile Zukunft brauchen wir mehr als Apps und selbstfahrende Autos. Vor lauter IT dürfen wir die reale Infrastruktur und die Produktivität nicht aus dem Auge verlieren.
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Rail delays
Sky News on rail delays after 13 year low according to the Office of Rail and Road, which is symptomatic of a wider problem than just the railways
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Christmas wrapping paper
Sky News discussion on the bah humbug attitude by environmentalists towards waste at Christmas
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Sceptical employees and the office of the future
We need productivity and innovation in workplaces, not eulogies to the employee experience, wellness or the circular economy
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EU militarism is nothing new
Macron’s plan for an EU army follows longstanding traditions
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Banned Iceland advert
Debate with George Monbiot on Iceland Foods’ encountering censorship of its cartoon ad directed against palm oil
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Some ABCs of forecasting: UX Brighton, November 2018
In this talk, James outlines some Dos and Don’ts to remember when imagining how people are likely to evolve in the years to 2030
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After the war: India’s untold story
The Indian Army’s contribution to the Allied war effort has been downplayed for far too long
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Consumption: six myths to discard
An article for the Fair Design conference, Warsaw, Poland, May 2018
Contact Centres 2030: The Shape of Automation to Come
Artificial Intelligence is spreading – above all, to help staff deal with customers better
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BBC documentary on Ibiza and UK youth, 1999
BBC documentary on Ibiza & UK youth from Winter 1999
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Keynote on Agility at a conference of Fujitsu Distinguished Engineers, October 2018
About software agility, business agility… and agile offices
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A 4-day week in the UK?
The TUC hopes for a four-day week by the end of this century. It ignores Britain’s crisis of business investment
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Artificial meat
The Adam Smith Institute claims that lab-grown meat could lower CO2, improve land use and re-wild the UK countryside. James would eat it, but says it’s no panacea, and a fair way off
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BBC Breakfast interview on retailing
As Sport Direct’s Mike Ashley takes over House of Fraser, James urges High Street retailers to innovate and be imaginative
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No, we are not addicted to smartphones
The idea that we’re at the mercy of Silicon Valley is an elitist myth
Mobile phone addiction
Reports of Ofcom figures on mobile use suggest we are addicted to them, but shouldn’t we question this coverage as misanthropic?
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What makes Fiat the big draw
With the death of Sergio Marchionne, can Fiat-Chrysler’s new CEO, Jeep chief Mike Manley, continue the car giant’s renaissance?
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HS2 and the buffers of Brexit
Between the old North-South divide and the more recent Referendum falls a tricky rail project
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Predicting the future
Developments tomorrow and the day after are more certain than is often assumed
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Cash: down, but not out
There’ll be lots of new kinds of money, but no real end to cash
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Heathrow expansion
Ahead of the parliamentary vote on a third runway for Heathrow airport, Sky News asked James to outline the technological dimensions of the issue
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Grenfell
On the anniversary of the disastrous Grenfell fire, we are right to question the state of the construction sector
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Debate with the IPPR on the UK’s crisis in retailing
In the wake of the announcement of up to 6,000 job losses at House of Fraser, the High Street should combat Amazon with automation and new physical sensations
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1968: North Vietnam strikes back
In January 1968, Vietnamese communists launched the world-changing Tet Offensive
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Debate with Friends of the Earth on plastics in the oceans
You might think the EU would be more interested in genuine innovation than banning plastic straws, cutlery and cotton buds. James takes issue with FoE’s Julian Kirby on the EU’s plans
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Dementia: we need action, not awareness
The response to Barbara Windsor’s diagnosis captured society’s low horizons
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Dementia and the NHS
What’s required is a cure, not more ‘awareness’ as Barbara Windsor’s husband announces the actress has been diagnosed with alzheimer’s disease
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The Fake Phenomenon
“Sincerity – if you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” US comedian George Burns
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IT illusions: the case of transport
The future of the car is Mobility as a Service (MaaS)? That’s a chimera
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Debate with Green Alliance on plastic bottles
Michael Gove’s proposal on a plastic bottles deposit return scheme was debated with Amy Mount from the Green Alliance and James. We need a technological fix, not yet another guilt trip about our ‘behaviour’.
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Customer service: toward a new, very different agenda
Customer loyalty? The whole idea is past its sell-by date
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Why they can’t fix the housing crisis
Both the Tories and Labour dread the radical shake-up we really need
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The dogma of wellbeing
With the Office for National Statistics, the British Medical Association and the Duke of Cambridge all behind the concept, a critique is long overdue
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Britain’s housing crisis
James and campaigner Kennedy Walker debate solutions to Britain’s housing crisis
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‘The Post’: missing the big story
Back in 1971, when this docudrama is set, it must have been tough being a newspaper baroness.
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What CIOs need to know about workplace biometrics
Biometrics, in which IT captures and checks a person’s unique biological and behavioral characteristics, is spreading through the world’s workplaces. It’s time to understand where the technology is headed
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Where SMEs should start in automating IT
Why the uptake of automation has been slow so far, and where to start now.
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The silent war against population growth in Africa
Once again, Westerners are foisting population control on Africa.
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How the EU is holding Africa back
It’s long been known, but often hushed over, that the subsidies the EU pays its farmers under the Common Agricultural Policy, plus the bureaucratic rules and standards it wields against food imports, have discriminated against African farmers.
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China’s supernova cities
By 2020, the Chinese government hopes to have a new and national Social Credit System (SCS) ready.
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Gelingen würde
Bundesentwicklungsminister Müller will einen Marshall-Plan zur Entwicklung Afrikas. Stattdessen muss der Kontinent sein Schicksal selbst in die Hand nehmen und kann dabei gar nicht ambitioniert genug denken
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What AI and Machine Learning mean for business
First things first. There’s no such thing as genuine Artificial Intelligence.
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What we can expect to see in technology
As 2018 gets underway, it’s time to take a look at what the year ahead holds for us. There are many areas we could focus on but the one that seems to be on many peoples’ minds is technology.
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Fascism: mobilisation of passions
This introduction was presented to the Leeds Salon as part of its Tetley Talks series in December 2017
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Africa: what would real progress look like?
After the faltering of Angela Merkel and the fall of Robert Mugabe, here are some principles of economic development that could form an alternative to Germany’s policy and practice in Africa
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The future of housing
The future of housing
In 2004, with the architect Ian Abley, I published a book titled Why is construction so backward?.
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Is globalisation over? The future of world trade
Listen to the debate ‘Is globalisation over? The future of world trade‘ from Battle of Ideas 2017
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We are all collaborative now
When suppliers and consumers use IT to ‘co-design’ new products and services, does that really represent democracy and empowerment?
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China isn’t the only country censoring the web
Last weekend, that supreme and unimpeachable force for worldwide progress, Apple Computer, withdrew perhaps 60 Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) from its App Store in China.
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India’s dialectic of progress
Two new books show how far post-independence India has come, and how far it has still to go
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Electric car, Made in China
Few in the West have taken the full measure of China’s drive toward electric vehicles
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Fascism in the colours of France
This book review, written more than 35 years ago, gives some historical clues as to why Marine Le Pen did relatively well in the French presidential elections of 2017
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The future of sleep
Folks, I have seen the future of sleep. It is Chinese, and cheap. Man Wah Holdings, a £700m furniture company headquartered in Hong Kong, has brought its new SleepCheers mattresses to showrooms in North Carolina.
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Innovation früher und heute
Politik und Medien begegnen technischen Innovationen heute nicht mehr mit Begeisterung, sondern mit Furcht. Dabei herrscht an ehrgeizigen Ideen kein Mangel – es bräuchte nur ein wenig Mut
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Why we shouldn’t weep over WannaCry
The hacking of the NHS was bad, but not that bad
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Wanted: a post-Brexit industrial strategy for electric cars
When Britain was fully signed up to the EU, the EU’s German-inspired bans on most state aids meant that Whitehall couldn’t really develop a genuine industrial strategy.
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People are great: a conversation on the future of work
At a conference staged by the office furniture firm Kinnarps UK, James had a chat with Mark Eltringham of Workplace Insight
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Don’t Shout at the Telly: The Future of Work
In this engaging on-the-sofa discussion, young volunteers for WORLDwrite, a charity, quiz James on IT and jobs
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Warum die amerikanische Wirtschaft schwächelt
Der Verlust von Jobs im Produktionssektor kann nicht einfach China oder der Automatisierung zugeschrieben werden.
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Origins and future of Industry 4.0
At the University of Missouri’s Center for Eldercare and Rehabilitation Technology, professors of engineering and nursing hook up sensors to perform clever feats in medicine.
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The psychobabble behind the ‘AI is racist’ claim
Astonishing news is in. Apparently, artificial intelligence can be bigoted, too.
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Stillstand im Verkehr überwinden
Zur Reduktion von Treibhausgasen soll auf das Reisen verzichtet werden. Wir brauchen aber nicht weniger Verkehr, sondern mehr echte Innovationen
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Industrial strategy, UK: where to back labs, prototypes and designs
This document is part of an Institute of Ideas Economy Forum response to the British Government’s Green Paper on industrial strategy, a consultation launched by business minister Greg Clark.
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Fake news, IT and the right kind of office for 2022
Reviewing US and UK debate on automation, James compares the impact of facilities on workplace output with the legitimacy crisis that management now faces
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Let’s get real about Augmented and Virtual Reality
In the medium term the real deal looks like being AR, more than VR
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The art of revolution
The RA’s Russian Revolution show captures the idealism of 1917 – and the gloom of what followed
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Back in the USSR
As a centenary show at the Royal Academy of Art revives British interest in the design output of Russia after 1917, this review of SO Khan-Magomedov, Rodchenko: the complete work (Thames and Hudson, 1986) looks at one of the founding fathers of Soviet design
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Myths & Realities of Industry 4.0
Speech to ‘Industry People Ideas 4.0’, Moscow, February 2017
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Myths and Realities of the Future of Work
In this keynote address to 300 delegates at Oracle’s Modern Business Conference at ExCel, East London, James challenged the perceived wisdom about IT, so as to highlight where real opportunities may be found
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The liberal West was protectionist before Trump
Obama and the EU pursued their own PC-flavoured trade wars before the Donald arrived
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The future of retail banking
In retail banking, the elephant in the room is that there simply may not be any left in years to come. More and more people, and not just the young, do their banking online.
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Innovation then – and the challenge now
In 1965 the debating society at my old school held a parents’ evening in which a debate took place on the motion: ‘The spirit of adventure has been lost’.
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Fragile days of revolution
As a centenary show at the Royal Academy of Art revives British interest in the design output of Russia after 1917, this review of Nina Lobanov‑Rostovsky, Revolutionary ceramics: Soviet porcelain 1917‑1927 (Studio Vista, 1990) highlights the contribution made by potters
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Trade, automation and US decline
Job losses in US manufacturing can’t simply be put down to China or IT
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The robots aren’t taking over
The idea that IT is surpassing human beings sells us short
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A postcapitalist pseuds’ corner
Two books prophesying the future show a distinct ignorance about present-day capitalism
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No, your home won’t be hacked
The panic about every household gadget being hit by computer hackers is overdone
On Friday 21 October an unprecedented cyber-attack hit many important websites, including Twitter, eBay and the New York Times.
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Samsung’s critics: recalling the future
Three dozen melted-down batteries among 2.5m new mobile phones is no reason to slow down innovation
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Time for manufacturers to intensify their drive into services
Webinar with Matt O’Neill for software specialists Epicor
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Innovation and Retailing, 2030
James looks at international disputes around trade, FDI and innovation – and at technology in shops. He also issues a call for higher wages
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Heathrow’s third runway: delayed, delayed, delayed
After decades of dithering, we must demand action on airport expansion.
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Automation anxiety and the future of work
Until fairly recently, most of the literature on the future of work was all too familiar: mobile working, working from home, hot-desking, teams, fun interiors to stimulate creativity, etc.
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Drugs, devices and digital media
As the first line of the blues song might now have it, I went down to the Boots audiology specialist.
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Hinkley, cybersecurity, China and the New Protectionism
To much controversy, Britain’s new prime minister, Theresa May, last month insisted on a fresh review of the building of two new nuclear reactors in the west of England.
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Hinkley Point and the fear of nuclear
Delaying building a new power station is a brake on progress.
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Das Internet der Befürchtungen
James Woudhuysen und Mark Birbeck
Das Internet der Dinge hat viel zu bieten. Unsere Ansprüche müssen wir jedoch höher ansetzen
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Innovation in megaprojects
Mostly, experts in innovation think about it in terms of the products and processes of industry and services: a new Dyson, or the software in Google or Uber.
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Internet of Things, Internet of Apprehension
The IoT has much to recommend it – but we need to set our sights higher: co-authored with Mark Birbeck
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Toward a new customer experience, European rail, 2030
The opportunity to do better
In the past 20 years, neither energy suppliers nor telecommunications firms have truly completed their journey toward providing a good customer experience, whether off-line or online.
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Financial services: is a robot stealing your job?
This keynote speech, delivered for the financial IT platform Intelliflo, looked at technology advances from both a consumer and business point of view
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Another fracking melodrama
For the first time, American scientists have published a paper showing that wastewater from a shale-gas well and a coalbed methane site, disposed of by injecting it into a deep well, has reached a surface stream.
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The Queen’s speech: all talk and no tech
Promises of driverless cars and space travel ring empty without funding for research.
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Scots manufacturing: time to revive Enlightenment traditions
Why it’s time for Scottish manufacturing to revive Enlghtenment traditions
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Where is Indian design going?
On 17 February 2016 in Mumbai, after a two-year gap, the India Design Forum (IDF) holds its third conference.
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Automation anxiety and the future of IT
Every new day finds a fresh, still more breathless report about how robots, Artificial Intelligence and IT generally are poised to take up to half of all jobs in the West.
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The spiral into neo-protectionism
Especially since the 1980s, design and architecture have been international in character.
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Chinese consumer markets cannot be turned back
Can China develop a coherent, vibrant internal market and break its dependency on large state-owned industries?
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No, Facebook isn’t the British Raj
The row about India’s access to the internet is a storm in a chai cup.
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Navigating the new landscape in cybersecurity
Martin Sorrell, CEO of the giant marketing services firm WPP, usually has a handle on the global zeitgeist in business – as an advertising man, it’s his job.
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Child migrants: Britain is far from full
David Cameron says he hates racism. He says he cares, deeply, about children – enough to cosset the charity Kids Company until well past its sell-by date.
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Design and the future of disaster relief
I believe in man-made climate change. Yet with or without it, the world needs more growth, not less, if it’s to prevent extreme weather or man-made chaos bringing disaster. The same holds for design after a disaster has struck. We need an approach that’s practical, not preachy.
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Mass wind and solar? They’re 25 years away
After COP21, the Paris conference on climate change, it’s time to puncture Green euphoria about renewable energy
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China’s productivity
The use of labour has been China’s main economic strength. Can it move beyond that?
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Manufacturing at Heart
This manufacturing.fm interview, entitled ‘Thinking about the future’ was produced as a Manufacturing at Heart podcast
Stuffitis, Affluenza and the Circular Economy
Lecture to design students at Central Saint Martin’s, University of the Arts, London, November 2015. The session was aimed at questioning the contemporary Green zeitgeist, which completely dominates the design scene, both in higher education and in practice.
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Years ago, I saw the great US graphic design writer Stephen Heller address a big crowd of students in London.
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Circular business models won’t revive urban manufacturing
In design, one needn’t always accept the problem as given. So why are we talking business models anyway?
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Retail 2020: Of robots, shelves and packs
In all today’s euphoric-apocalyptic hysteria about how the robots are coming, one sector is woefully neglected (1).
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New wars, new technology
James Woudhuysen joined a panel discussion entitled ‘New wars, new technology‘ at the Battle of Ideas in the Barbican, October 2015
Cosmonauts: a tribute to Russian grit
What is it about the Russians and space flight?
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Design and the future of IT
I will tell you one thing about IT. In international design, the Powers That Be are infatuated with it.
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VW: a panto of Green politics
Paul Seaman and James Woudhuysen
Last week, everyone learned that Volkswagen (VW) fitted special, duplicitous software to its diesel-powered cars.
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James Woudhuysen delivers the keynote address to Fujitsu UK & Ireland’s conference of Distinguished Engineers, held on 24 September 2015 at Warwick University
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Invasion of the sexbots? Get a grip
In 1988, before the internet arrived in anybody’s house, I helped lead Britain’s first study of e-commerce – what was then known as ‘teleshopping’.
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Report on Sheffield City Centre, September 2015
This report suggests how technology and a fresh, libertarian approach to the future of Britain’s cities could go one better than the samey, grey spatial determinism that passes for urban policy these days
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What agility means for small business
With the new digital tools that are now available, organisations of every size can trade ideas and collaborate more easily than ever before.
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The attractiveness of cars in a Green age
Britons want to do their bit for the environment. We are conscious of energy ratings when we buy or rent houses; we give money and time to green causes; we recycle more of our waste. Moreover Britain’s political parties continuously repeat how committed they are to fighting global warming.
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Our hero: Gensets provide critical power where it’s needed
After April, when Nepal suffered its worst earthquake in 80 years, the technology made it to the front page of the New York Times.
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Why Alice is still wonderful
In July 1865, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematics lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford, published the first edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.
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Mobility trends and the professional use of IT in European rail, 2015-2025
Perhaps the growing attention given to major disasters at sea, on the roads, in the air and on the railways is just to do with the speed and video quality of news now available on the Web.
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Mobility trends and the professional use of IT in European aviation, 2015-2025
In 2012, the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development said that air passenger traffic could double in 15 years; airfreight could treble in 20 years.(1)
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Humanitarian design = cultural imperialism
Developed economies have all done raw material-munching, pollution-belching industrial revolutions.
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Futureproofing your business
I feel good about not booking my Amtrak train from Washington to New York City two days earlier than I did. In this manner I avoided the murderous crash that happened on that line.
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The coming niches for UK design
Where could the UK economy go next? Manufacturing accounts for 70 per cent of UK R&D, and large foreign firms take 54 per cent of it.
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Transport in the UK election, 2015
While Japan is building floating trains, British politicians are promising (slightly) lower fares.
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New ideas that could give UK manufacturing a lift
Advocates often exaggerate the speed of development and the impact of new technologies. Yet by 2035, those that are now emerging will have matured – and in some of them the UK is already strong.
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China’s leap forward on patents
How groundbreaking are China’s patents? How innovative really is China?
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China’s leap forward on patents – in German
How groundbreaking are China’s patents? How innovative really is China?
What a difference seven months makes.
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The greening of the ivory towers in education
A National Association of Scholars report interrogates the tyranny of sustainability in education.
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The future of retailing
I confess. Like most men, I find shopping boring. Yet what retailers do next is more interesting than the travails of Tesco today, or the more general problem of too much retail floorspace in the UK
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Extraordinary innovation: presentation to a conference of UK power systems manufacturers
With a speech entitled ‘Extraordinary Innovation’, James Woudhuysen opens the Association of Manufacturers of Power Systems (AMPS) conference 2015
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Tackling challenges faced by oil and gas companies
Michael Zipf interviews James Woudhuysen after his Keynote address ‘Forecast of the Future: The Value of Ambitious Innovation in Energy’ at the International SAP conference for Oil and Gas, CityCube, Berlin April 2015
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Design and Quality
Years ago, I used to interview some of the world’s top product and graphic designers.
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Retailing at Goodyear Dunlop’s ‘State of the Nation 2015’ conference
James Woudhuysen is interviewed about future trends in retailing by Ron Pike, Promotions & Events Manager at Goodyear Dunlop, at the final session of the Goodyear Dunlop ‘State of the Nation 2015’ conference
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Chinese innovation assessed
Can China innovate? How might its innovations change the rest of the world?
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Drones: time to reach for the skies
Unmanned aircraft systems could radically enhance people’s lives.
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Innovation, plastics and the merits of carbon
The West has lost the plot in innovation – but the whole world needs to rehabilitate ‘stuff’, plastics and the sixth element in the periodic table. Published in Russian and English
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The robots are not taking over
Stephen Hawking may be scared, but AI promises to help, not hinder us.
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James Woudhuysen spoke on ‘Reinventing the High Street‘ at the Content, Customers & Communities in the Media Landscape conference, held at London’s Digital Catapult Centre, Dec 2014.
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James Woudhuysen opened the Content, Customers & Communities in the Media Landscape conference, held at London’s Digital Catapult Centre, Dec 2014.
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Carbon makes the world go round
Ignore the miserable greens – carbon is a boon to humanity.
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Strategies in Lean IT: their relevance to the travel business
This White Paper by James Woudhuysen looks at strategies in ‘Lean IT’ and their relevance to the travel business.
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Transport: breaking through the impasse
ESSAY: Six arguments for innovation in transport.
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These short video presentations cover a range of innovations and new technologies within manufacturing, describing the opportunities for growth and development open to SMEs over the next 10 years. Sponsored by Epicor Software.
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PPE @Oxford. Wants a ceasefire. Fan of Stiglitz and Mazzucato 💤 Oh, and feted by the Sunday Times.
Got it, #GraceBlakeley !
The anger that inspires the web’s favourite socialist firebrand
Instead of buying from Japan at high cost, #China now makes its own ultra-low temperature high-frequency coaxial cables to get the signals out of #QuantumComputers
Origin Quantum, the maker, was just made the subject of US sanctions https://sc.mp/2guk2?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=3262995&utm_medium=share_widget via @scmpnews
Innovators I like
Robert Furchgott – discovered that nitric oxide transmits signals within the human body
Barry Marshall – showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid
N Joseph Woodland – co-inventor of the barcode
Jocelyn Bell Burnell – she discovered the first radio pulsars
John Tyndall – the man who worked out why the sky was blue
Rosalind Franklin co-discovered the structure of DNA, with Crick and Watson
Rosalyn Sussman Yallow – development of radioimmunoassay (RIA), a method of quantifying minute amounts of biological substances in the body
Jonas Salk – discovery and development of the first successful polio vaccine
John Waterlow – discovered that lack of body potassium causes altitude sickness. First experiment: on himself
Werner Forssmann – the first man to insert a catheter into a human heart: his own
Bruce Bayer – scientist with Kodak whose invention of a colour filter array enabled digital imaging sensors to capture colour
Yuri Gagarin – first man in space. My piece of fandom: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/10421
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield – inventor, with Robert Ledley, of the CAT scanner
Martin Cooper – inventor of the mobile phone
Eugene Polley – TV remote controls
George Devol – 'father of robotics’ who helped to revolutionise carmaking
Thomas Tuohy – Windscale manager who doused the flames of the 1957 fire