Society ⁽¹⁴⁾

There is something very disturbing about the modern habit of making instant judgements about everything, simple or complex. This has been blamed on the 24-hour news cycle which is said to force quicker and quicker stories out for fear that a particular news outlet is…

I'm a great supporter of driverless cars. I think they have the potential to dramatically change the world, making much better use of resources, revolutionising mobility for all and radically improving our towns and cities. Paradoxically, however, I am not so keen on Phillip Hammond's…

One sentence in one article I read this last week caused me to sit up and reflect more, I think, than any other: "Carmakers are threatened more by the end of the combustion engine than by Brexit." Just a throw-away line in a story by…

The unforeseen nature of Donald Trump's victory yesterday, and before that of the Brexit Leave Campaign, say something quite profound about the way in which US and UK populations now consume their information and form their views. As the Independent said today, it was the…

The Sage, Gateshead This year was something of a turning point for Thinking Digital as the Tyneside-based event, regarded as a kind of home-grown TED since its launch in 2008, this year branched out into satellite events in London and Manchester. The original event was…