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Supposedly innovation will be the saviour of us all - bringing much needed solutions to hard economic social and environmental problems. If we can just use our human creativity, ingenuity, agency in the right way, then everything will be OK, and the promise of Progress will be delivered. Right now though we appear to be piling ahead in some areas, and floundering in way too many others. So how can we be more effective overall?

There is much debate as to the…

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Speaking at the RSA , author Mischa Gleeny highlighted key arguments and examples from his book 'Dark Market: Cyber thieves, cyber cops and you'. Highly entertaining and sobering - it's not often that the personalities and faces behind cybercrime are shown as human, not just money grabbing monsters.



The sheer scale and audacity of cyber crime, cyber warfare, and cyber industrial espionage has exploded over the past decades - and identifying and prosectuing the perpetrators is… Continue

Recent research has been focusing on the possibility that personality, states of mind and health can be affected by the experiences of previous generations – in a way that does not rely on the currently known methods of DNA transmission, but instead uses a methylation process to pass on responses to extremes of stress. As a recent New Scientist article puts it – the sins of… Continue