Further and higher education: The dividing line
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Tom Cheesewright on The number of students in further education has collapsed, undermining the UK’s ability to prepare people for the future
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The Trust Gap
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Tom Cheesewright on What has happened to trust in authority? And ill trust in media, politicians and experts be restored in the coming generations?
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All the world’s a stadium and all the men and women merely gamers
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Tom Cheesewright on What does it mean to be a winner in the game of life today? And how much control can we exert over the rules?
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If the future is female, then we need to deal with the past
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Tom Cheesewright on Our culture constantly reinforces a sense of male entitlement to women’s bodies and service. Until we challenge it, nothing will change.
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When the flame goes out
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Tom Cheesewright on Kids are bemused by old technologies that were critical to us but which have now disappeared, leaving only echoes. What technologies are likely to disappear in the near future? Here’s one suggestion, explored in fiction.
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Relationships are the future
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Tom Cheesewright on Rather than looking at people or objects, we can learn much about the future by examining the changing relationships between them
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‘I am not a cat’: what this week’s #zoomfail says about the future of identity
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Tom Cheesewright on On the internet, no-one knows you’re a dog…or a lawyer
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You can’t dig yourself out of a hole
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Tom Cheesewright on The economic picture is bleak. We can’t cut our way out. It’s time to invest. We just need to do it in the right places.
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A digital life after death
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Tom Cheesewright on Microsoft has filed a patent to turn someone’s digital personality into a chatbot. Is this our first attempt at resurrection?
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And so, this is Christmas…
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Tom Cheesewright on Another year over and a new one… about to begin. What happened? And what does the new year hold? Here are my 2021 predictions
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The brain in the jar
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Tom Cheesewright on The brain in the jar is a staple of science fiction: minds that can be dropped into new bodies or digital environments. But it’s wrong.
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Jack of all trades
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Tom Cheesewright on To be ‘a Jack of all trades’ has been variously a compliment and an insult, and most recently, an attack on expertise. But is it what we need to be?
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