Before reading on, let me declare that I am a ‘remainer’. But please don’t let that put you off because this is not about Brexit per se. It’s about binary thinking. Since the vote back in June 2016 I have …
Brexit is not the issue Read more »
On Wikipedia 21st March 2018: “Today in the United States we have somewhere close to four or five thousand data points on every individual […] So we model the personality of every adult across the United States, some 230 million …
Cambridge Analytica – Another Threat to Democracy Read more »
Positioning theory illuminates our understanding of rights, duties, expectations and vulnerabilities. It addresses the dynamics of power and control and is a potent tool for understanding the self, the individual in the context of others, relationships, and social institutions. It …
What’s your position? Read more »
The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) has just published its response to the new UK Industrial Strategy and both BIT and I are pretty positive about it. Let me tell you why and then, let me tell you what’s still wrong …
UK Industrial Strategy, November 2017 Read more »
How do we know what we know? This article considers: (1) the ways we come to believe what we think we know (2) the many issues with the validation of our beliefs (3) the implications for building artificial intelligence and …
Human Operating System 4 – Ways of Knowing Read more »
14th July 2017 – Independence Day! Why you should change your Facebook settings When I ask if anybody ‘would like an ice-cream?’, do I really mean it, or is it just that I want an ice-cream myself? They say I’m …
The Story of Your Life Read more »
6th July 2017 Have them sleep under the bridge (Press the red ‘play’ button to hear the audio – 7:45 minutes) Transcript of the Audio The Grenfell Tower disaster, that took place in London on 14 June 2017, is symptomatic …
It Doesn’t End With Grenfell – Accountability and Power Read more »
3rd April 2017 The Coincidence of Living at this Time (Press the red ‘play’ button to hear the audio – 3:20 minutes) Transcript of the Audio On April 3rd 1973 Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first handheld mobile phone …
Thought for the Day – 3rd April 2017 Read more »
In January 2017, Oxfam released a report claiming that 8 people between them now own half of the world’s wealth (last year it was 62). If this is true, then how did the other 7.5 billion people let this happen? …
Post Truth and Trust The term ‘post truth’ implies that there was once a time when the ‘truth’ was apparent or easy to establish. We can question whether such a time ever existed, and indeed the ‘truth’, even in science, …
Can we Trust Blockchain in an Era of ‘Post Truth’? Read more »