Speaking – Audio and Video Posts
Forecasting failure: A short history of the future
Watch the video of James Woudhysen’s lecture on Forecasting at The Academy, 2023
Read the full article...Digital ID, A Tool To Control Thee?
This week, once again, Tony Blair has been bleating on about ID cards
Read the full article...Infrastructure Crisis on TalkTV
James talks to Julia Hartley Brewer about the infrastructure crisis in the UK
Read the full article...James on talkRADIO TV discussing COP26 and Carbon Net Zero
James on the Kevin O’Sullivan show, talkRADIO TV, 5 November 2021, discussing COP26, Net Zero and the climate change agenda
Read the full article...Covid-19 and the Chinese economy
At an Academy of Ideas discussion chaired by Rob Lyons, architecture guru Austin Williams (at 5m) and James (at 23m) talk about China’s history, its economy and its prospects
Read the full article...Track and trace: The technology debate
Is there a #smartphone #app that can beat #Covid19?
Read the full article...Greta Thunberg and climate change
Sky News discussion on Greta Thunberg and climate change
Read the full article...July 2019 heat wave and climate change
Sky News debate with Angela Terry of One Home on the July 2019 heat wave in the UK and climate change
Read the full article...Justin Trudeau’s ban on single-use plastics
Sky News discussion with Dr Sharon George around Canadian premier Justin Trudeau’s ban on single-use plastics, 11 June 2019
Read the full article...Rescuing British Steel
Sky News discussion on rescue plans for British Steel with Faiza Shaheen from Centre for Labour and Social Studies and James Woudhuysen
Read the full article...Speech to IPSOS Academy: Disruption, climate change – and plastics
In this 30-minute talk, James interrogates trendy categories in innovation, explores the domains of forecasting and risk, and puts forward solutions to the problem of plastics
Read the full article...Chimp using Social Media
Sky News discussion on a chimp supposedly demonstrating an ability to use Social Media
Read the full article...Climate change and the need for energy R&D
Sky News discussion on climate change and the need for energy R&D
Read the full article...Rail delays
Sky News on rail delays after 13 year low according to the Office of Rail and Road, which is symptomatic of a wider problem than just the railways
Read the full article...Christmas wrapping paper
Sky News discussion on the bah humbug attitude by environmentalists towards waste at Christmas
Read the full article...Banned Iceland advert
Debate with George Monbiot on Iceland Foods’ encountering censorship of its cartoon ad directed against palm oil
Read the full article...Keynote on Agility at a conference of Fujitsu Distinguished Engineers, October 2018
About software agility, business agility… and agile offices
Read the full article...A 4-day week in the UK?
The TUC hopes for a four-day week by the end of this century. It ignores Britain’s crisis of business investment
Read the full article...Debate with Friends of the Earth on plastics in the oceans
You might think the EU would be more interested in genuine innovation than banning plastic straws, cutlery and cotton buds. James takes issue with FoE’s Julian Kirby on the EU’s plans
Read the full article...Debate with Green Alliance on plastic bottles
Michael Gove’s proposal on a plastic bottles deposit return scheme was debated with Amy Mount from the Green Alliance and James. We need a technological fix, not yet another guilt trip about our ‘behaviour’.
Read the full article...Fascism: mobilisation of passions
This introduction was presented to the Leeds Salon as part of its Tetley Talks series in December 2017
Read the full article...Is globalisation over? The future of world trade
Listen to the debate ‘Is globalisation over? The future of world trade‘ from Battle of Ideas 2017
Read the full article...People are great: a conversation on the future of work
At a conference staged by the office furniture firm Kinnarps UK, James had a chat with Mark Eltringham of Workplace Insight
Read the full article...Don’t Shout at the Telly: The Future of Work
In this engaging on-the-sofa discussion, young volunteers for WORLDwrite, a charity, quiz James on IT and jobs
Read the full article...Fake news, IT and the right kind of office for 2022
Reviewing US and UK debate on automation, James compares the impact of facilities on workplace output with the legitimacy crisis that management now faces
Read the full article...Myths & Realities of Industry 4.0
Speech to ‘Industry People Ideas 4.0’, Moscow, February 2017
Read the full article...Myths and Realities of the Future of Work
In this keynote address to 300 delegates at Oracle’s Modern Business Conference at ExCel, East London, James challenged the perceived wisdom about IT, so as to highlight where real opportunities may be found
Read the full article...Time for manufacturers to intensify their drive into services
Webinar with Matt O’Neill for software specialists Epicor
Read the full article...Innovation and Retailing, 2030
James looks at international disputes around trade, FDI and innovation – and at technology in shops. He also issues a call for higher wages
Read the full article...Financial services: is a robot stealing your job?
This keynote speech, delivered for the financial IT platform Intelliflo, looked at technology advances from both a consumer and business point of view
Read the full article...Manufacturing at Heart
This manufacturing.fm interview, entitled ‘Thinking about the future’ was produced as a Manufacturing at Heart podcast
Stuffitis, Affluenza and the Circular Economy
Lecture to design students at Central Saint Martin’s, University of the Arts, London, November 2015. The session was aimed at questioning the contemporary Green zeitgeist, which completely dominates the design scene, both in higher education and in practice.
Read the full article...New wars, new technology
James Woudhuysen joined a panel discussion entitled ‘New wars, new technology‘ at the Battle of Ideas in the Barbican, October 2015
The Future of Innovation – at Fujitsu
James Woudhuysen delivers the keynote address to Fujitsu UK & Ireland’s conference of Distinguished Engineers, held on 24 September 2015 at Warwick University
Read the full article...Extraordinary innovation: presentation to a conference of UK power systems manufacturers
With a speech entitled ‘Extraordinary Innovation’, James Woudhuysen opens the Association of Manufacturers of Power Systems (AMPS) conference 2015
Read the full article...Tackling challenges faced by oil and gas companies
Michael Zipf interviews James Woudhuysen after his Keynote address ‘Forecast of the Future: The Value of Ambitious Innovation in Energy’ at the International SAP conference for Oil and Gas, CityCube, Berlin April 2015
Read the full article...Retailing at Goodyear Dunlop’s ‘State of the Nation 2015’ conference
James Woudhuysen is interviewed about future trends in retailing by Ron Pike, Promotions & Events Manager at Goodyear Dunlop, at the final session of the Goodyear Dunlop ‘State of the Nation 2015’ conference
Read the full article...Re-inventing the High Street
James Woudhuysen spoke on ‘Reinventing the High Street‘ at the Content, Customers & Communities in the Media Landscape conference, held at London’s Digital Catapult Centre, Dec 2014.
Read the full article...The future of media and the relevance of Content
James Woudhuysen opened the Content, Customers & Communities in the Media Landscape conference, held at London’s Digital Catapult Centre, Dec 2014.
Read the full article...Innovative technologies in manufacturing
These short video presentations cover a range of innovations and new technologies within manufacturing, describing the opportunities for growth and development open to SMEs over the next 10 years. Sponsored by Epicor Software.
Read the full article...Fracking with George Monbiot
Matthew Taylor brings together James Woudhuysen and George Monbiot for a head-to-head discussion on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for the the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Agree to differ‘.
Read the full article...Communicating the romance of innovation
James Woudhuysen delivered the Opening Keynote II ‘Communicating the Romance of Innovation‘ at the European Communication Summit in Brussels 2014
Read the full article...Fujitsu World Tour 2014: The human centric intelligent society
Fujitsu UK CTO Jon Wrennall talks to James Woudhuysen about how technology can help us meet the most human of needs: energy and food.
Read the full article...First World War: Mainstream Histories, Liberal Forecasts
James Woudhuysen spoke on ‘World War I: Origins, and Warnings for 21st Century‘ at the Leeds Salon, June 2014
Read the full article...Design needs to make more than a difference
The future of higher education and IT
There was a time when universities and higher education led many other sectors of the economy in their research about and use of IT. How do we get that position back?
Read the full article...East Asia: the new global hotspot?
Kim Jong-un’s North Korea may call for a ‘merciless, sacred, retaliatory war’ against the US imperialists and South Korean ‘puppet warmongers’ it blames for inching the Korean peninsula towards thermonuclear war. But China, despite distancing itself from its communist neighbour’s antics, also feels itself threatened by the US.
Read the full article...Cities: what IT could do for London
James Woudhuysen joined this debate at the Global Futures event on Technology, Disruption and Convergence in February 2013. Speaking on the topic of ‘What IT could do for London‘, James challenges IT professionals to step outside the virtual world and change the capital physically.
Read the full article...Brands and Corporate Social Responsibility
James joins an event debating Brands and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to explore the question: ‘Are today’s brands capable of acting in anything other than their own self interest?’
Read the full article...The Giants of Asia
2018 note: With their huge populations and buoyant growth rates, China and India are two of the economic and technological powerhouses of the twenty-first century. And though many seem to forget it after two lost decades, Japan is the third largest economy in the world, the second largest developed economy and the world’s largest creditor nation. Over the past 10 years, too, growth in Japanese GDP per head has also outpaced that of Europe and the US
Read the full article...Britain is headed for power cuts in the next 3 – 5 years
“Britain is headed for power cuts in the next 3 – 5 years”, says forecaster James Woudhuysen. So what is contributing to the problem of current low levels of energy production and what are the big challenges we need to tackle?
Read the full article...Japan and China – could tension between them lead to war?
Japanese and Chinese diplomats met on Wednesday for urgent talks over a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea.
Read the full article...Moby Dick Big Read: Chapter 24 – The Advocate
Moby Dick Big Read: Chapter 24 – The Advocate. James reads Chapter 24: The Advocate as part of The Moby Dick Big Read.
Read the full article...Behind the froth in IT and innovation
James goes ‘Behind the froth in IT and innovation’ at TEDx Sussex University taking on two contemporary notions of IT – it’s all great or it’s all bad news.
Read the full article...Fracking and Fukushima: our energy security fears
When I hear the phrase “energy security”, I reach for my revolver’.
Read the full article...Forecasting at Sage World 2010
Forecasting the future – Is it possible to forecast the future? If it is, then why is there such contemporary scepticism towards it?
Read the full article...Business models are no substitute for genuine innovation
James Woudhuysen can’t get excited about BUSINESS MODELS. They distract from the much harder work of scientific and technological innovation.
Read the full article...The Future Unwrapped: Media and Society, 2012+
The Media Futures Conference 2009 brought together leading thinkers and practitioners from around the media industry to share their pioneering work.
Read the full article...Low-energy light bulbs – blaming us for energy consumption
BBC Breakfast: News and discussion piece on the phasing in of new low-energy light bulbs. During this item on BBC Breakfast, James Woudhuysen outlines his criticism of the government’s focus on consumer buying.
Read the full article...The nineteenth-century Greens
What would 19th-century Romantic poets like Wordsworth make of modern Greens? A half-hour broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
Read the full article...Solar energy for British homes?
BBC Breakfast: News and debate on a new government initiative around solar energy for British homes. James debates this topic with Stephan Hale, Director of the Green Alliance.
Read the full article...Shaping the Future of the Workplace
In this speech, James asks those charged with managing worplaces to keep calm about climate change and forensically examine official reports about it, and about energy.
Read the full article...Should each person carry a Carbon Ration Card?
Debate on BBC Breakfast with Professor Mayer Hillman about the Carbon Ration Card proposal announced by Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs David Miliband.
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Good luck to the #farmers on their march today!
I probably don't need to tell you to wrap up warm. But please remember that no part of the UK's green agenda is your friend. All of it is intended to deprive you of your livelihood, one way or another. That is its design.
Brilliant piece by @danielbenami. RECOMMENDED
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Innovators I like
Robert Furchgott – discovered that nitric oxide transmits signals within the human body
Barry Marshall – showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid
N Joseph Woodland – co-inventor of the barcode
Jocelyn Bell Burnell – she discovered the first radio pulsars
John Tyndall – the man who worked out why the sky was blue
Rosalind Franklin co-discovered the structure of DNA, with Crick and Watson
Rosalyn Sussman Yallow – development of radioimmunoassay (RIA), a method of quantifying minute amounts of biological substances in the body
Jonas Salk – discovery and development of the first successful polio vaccine
John Waterlow – discovered that lack of body potassium causes altitude sickness. First experiment: on himself
Werner Forssmann – the first man to insert a catheter into a human heart: his own
Bruce Bayer – scientist with Kodak whose invention of a colour filter array enabled digital imaging sensors to capture colour
Yuri Gagarin – first man in space. My piece of fandom: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/10421
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield – inventor, with Robert Ledley, of the CAT scanner
Martin Cooper – inventor of the mobile phone
George Devol – 'father of robotics’ who helped to revolutionise carmaking
Thomas Tuohy – Windscale manager who doused the flames of the 1957 fire
Eugene Polley – TV remote controls