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Tom Cheesewright on The self-preservation society
What connects Brexit, Coronavirus, Ayn Rand and air pollution? All tell us something about our instincts for self-preservation.
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Tom Cheesewright on Halfway between a stranger and a friend
Greater community engagement and peer support can’t replace our over-stretched services and crumbling infrastructure. But it can mitigate their effects.
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Tom Cheesewright on Do we need a robot tax?
A robot tax is neither practical nor desirable, just a useful soundbite for politicians avoiding the difficult truth that we need to secure existing incomes
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Tom Cheesewright on Teaching technology isn’t about the economy, it’s about democracy
Digital skills are crucial to the economy, but they are also crucial to all other aspects of modern life, including democracy
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Tom Cheesewright on One world, many realities
We should encourage all forms of diversity in this world except a diversity of realities, where humans are divided by lies
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Tom Cheesewright on What happens when technology changes but society doesn’t?
Science fiction shows us what our world might look like if we allow technology to develop without evolving our economic and welfare systems
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Tom Cheesewright on Dear politician, what are you going to do about automation?
Politicians are dodging the difficult topic of automation. Sooner or later they will need to engage and take some tough decisions.
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Tom Cheesewright on After the future
What happens after the future we envision? We must be aware of unintended consequences beyond the range of our foresight horizons
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