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Forecasting failure by James Woudhuysen

Forecasting failure: A short history of the future

Published 30 July 2023

Watch the video of James Woudhysen’s lecture on Forecasting at The Academy, 2023

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Digital ID, Reasoned

Digital ID, A Tool To Control Thee?

Published 26 February 2023

This week, once again, Tony Blair has been bleating on about ID cards

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Infrastructure crisis, Talk TV

Infrastructure Crisis on TalkTV

Published 15 August 2022

James talks to Julia Hartley Brewer about the infrastructure crisis in the UK

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talkRADIO TV on COP26

James on talkRADIO TV discussing COP26 and Carbon Net Zero

Published 7 November 2021

James on the Kevin O’Sullivan show, talkRADIO TV, 5 November 2021, discussing COP26, Net Zero and the climate change agenda

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President XI Jinping

Covid-19 and the Chinese economy

Published 4 June 2020

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

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Track and trace

Greta Thunberg and climate change

Greta Thunberg and climate change

Published 22 August 2019

Sky News discussion on Greta Thunberg and climate change

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Sky News on heat wave and climate change

July 2019 heat wave and climate change

Published 26 July 2019

Sky News debate with Angela Terry of One Home on the July 2019 heat wave in the UK and climate change

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Sky News on Justin Trudeau's plastics ban

Justin Trudeau’s ban on single-use plastics

Published 11 June 2019

Sky News discussion with Dr Sharon George around Canadian premier Justin Trudeau’s ban on single-use plastics, 11 June 2019 

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Sky News on British Steel

Rescuing British Steel

Published 30 May 2019

Sky News discussion on rescue plans for British Steel with Faiza Shaheen from Centre for Labour and Social Studies and James Woudhuysen

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IPSOS Academy on Tech: disruption, climate change – and plastics

Speech to IPSOS Academy: Disruption, climate change – and plastics

Published 9 May 2019

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 

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Sky News on social media chimp

Chimp using Social Media

Published 27 April 2019

Sky News discussion on a chimp supposedly demonstrating an ability to use Social Media

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Sky News discussion on Extinction Rebellion

Climate change and the need for energy R&D

Published 17 April 2019

Sky News discussion on climate change and the need for energy R&D 

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Sky News on rail delays

Rail delays

Published 27 December 2018

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

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Sky News on wrapping paper

Christmas wrapping paper

Published 22 December 2018

Sky News discussion on the bah humbug attitude by environmentalists towards waste at Christmas

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Sky News discussion on Iceland advert

Banned Iceland advert

Published 13 November 2018

Debate with George Monbiot on Iceland Foods’ encountering censorship of its cartoon ad directed against palm oil

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Keynote speech at Fujitsu conference

Frances O'Grady at TUC

A 4-day week in the UK?

Published 10 September 2018

The TUC hopes for a four-day week by the end of this century. It ignores Britain’s crisis of business investment

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Sky News interview on Ocean Rescue

Debate with Friends of the Earth on plastics in the oceans

Published 28 May 2018

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

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Sky News interview on pastic bottles

Debate with Green Alliance on plastic bottles

Published 28 March 2018

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’.

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Alfredo Gauro Ambrosini, Aeroritratto di Benito Mussolini Aviatore, 1930.

Fascism: mobilisation of passions

Published 2 December 2017

This introduction was presented to the Leeds Salon as part of its Tetley Talks series in December 2017

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Globalisation

Is globalisation over? The future of world trade

Published 29 October 2017

Listen to the debate ‘Is globalisation over? The future of world trade‘ from Battle of Ideas 2017

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The future of work

People are great: a conversation on the future of work

Published 9 May 2017

At a conference staged by the office furniture firm Kinnarps UK, James had a chat with Mark Eltringham of Workplace Insight

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The future of work

Don’t Shout at the Telly: The Future of Work

Published 1 May 2017

In this engaging on-the-sofa discussion, young volunteers for WORLDwrite, a charity, quiz James on IT and jobs

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Fake news

Fake news, IT and the right kind of office for 2022

Published 30 March 2017

Reviewing US and UK debate on automation, James compares the impact of facilities on workplace output with the legitimacy crisis that management now faces

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Industry 4.0

Myths & Realities of Industry 4.0

Published 27 February 2017

Speech to ‘Industry People Ideas 4.0’, Moscow, February 2017

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Oracle talk

Myths and Realities of the Future of Work

Published 1 February 2017

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

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Manuservice

Time for manufacturers to intensify their drive into services

Published 13 October 2016

Webinar with Matt O’Neill for software specialists Epicor

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Innovation and retailing

Innovation and Retailing, 2030

Published 21 September 2016

James looks at international disputes around trade, FDI and innovation – and at technology in shops. He also issues a call for higher wages

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Robot

Financial services: is a robot stealing your job?

Published 11 June 2016

This keynote speech, delivered for the financial IT platform Intelliflo, looked at technology advances from both a consumer and business point of view

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Manufacturing at Heart

Published 29 November 2015


This manufacturing.fm interview, entitled ‘Thinking about the future’ was produced as a Manufacturing at Heart podcast

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Stuffitis, Affluenza and the Circular Economy

Stuffitis, Affluenza and the Circular Economy

Published 28 November 2015

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.

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US Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter

New wars, new technology

Published 28 October 2015

James Woudhuysen joined a panel discussion entitled New wars, new technology at the Battle of Ideas in the Barbican, October 2015

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The Future of Innovation – at Fujitsu

Published 24 September 2015

James Woudhuysen delivers the keynote address to Fujitsu UK & Ireland’s conference of Distinguished Engineers, held on 24 September 2015 at Warwick University

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Opening the AMPS conference 2015

Extraordinary innovation: presentation to a conference of UK power systems manufacturers

Published 12 March 2015

With a speech entitled ‘Extraordinary Innovation’, James Woudhuysen opens the Association of Manufacturers of Power Systems (AMPS) conference 2015

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International SAP conference for Oil and Gas, Berlin, April 2015

Tackling challenges faced by oil and gas companies

Published 14 February 2015

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

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Retailing at Goodyear Dunlop's 'State of the Nation 2015'

Retailing at Goodyear Dunlop’s ‘State of the Nation 2015’ conference

Published 23 January 2015

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

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Re-inventing the High Street

Published 4 December 2014

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.

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The future of media and the relevance of Content

Published 4 December 2014

James Woudhuysen opened the Content, Customers & Communities in the Media Landscape conference, held at London’s Digital Catapult Centre, Dec 2014.

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Innovative technologies in manufacturing

Published 26 August 2014

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.

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George Monbiot

Fracking with George Monbiot

Published 23 August 2014

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‘.

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Communicating the romance of innovation

Published 11 July 2014

James Woudhuysen delivered the Opening Keynote IICommunicating the Romance of Innovation‘ at the European Communication Summit in Brussels 2014

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Fujitsu World Tour 2014: The human centric intelligent society

Published 7 July 2014

Fujitsu UK CTO Jon Wrennall talks to James Woudhuysen about how technology can help us meet the most human of needs: energy and food.

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First World War: Mainstream Histories, Liberal Forecasts

Published 14 June 2014

James Woudhuysen spoke on ‘World War I: Origins, and Warnings for 21st Century‘ at the Leeds Salon, June 2014

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Design needs to make more than a difference

Published 13 March 2014
James Woudhuysen discusses various topics around the importance of design, including the main challenges that the design industry faces, what product and service design is, what design authority means to him, whether business executives sufficiently understand design and how design can transform business.
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Einstein: the first hundred years

The future of higher education and IT

Published 22 November 2013

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?

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East Asia: the new global hotspot?

Published 19 October 2013

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.

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Cities: what IT could do for London

Published 20 February 2013

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.

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Brands and Corporate Social Responsibility

Published 29 October 2012

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?’

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The Giants of Asia, Battle of Ideas 2012

The Giants of Asia

Published 21 October 2012

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

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Britain is headed for power cuts in the next 3 – 5 years

Published 11 October 2012

“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?

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Japan and China – could tension between them lead to war?

Published 28 September 2012

Japanese and Chinese diplomats met on Wednesday for urgent talks over a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea.

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Moby Dick Big Read: Chapter 24 – The Advocate

Published 16 September 2012

Moby Dick Big Read: Chapter 24 – The Advocate. James reads Chapter 24: The Advocate as part of The Moby Dick Big Read.

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Behind the froth in IT and innovation

Published 19 June 2012

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.

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Fracking and Fukushima: our energy security fears

Published 17 October 2011

When I hear the phrase “energy security”, I reach for my revolver’.

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Forecasting at Sage World 2010

Published 9 September 2010

Forecasting the future – Is it possible to forecast the future? If it is, then why is there such contemporary scepticism towards it?

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Business models are no substitute for genuine innovation

Published 19 April 2010

James Woudhuysen can’t get excited about BUSINESS MODELS. They distract from the much harder work of scientific and technological innovation.

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The Future Unwrapped: Media and Society, 2012+

Published 3 July 2009

The Media Futures Conference 2009 brought together leading thinkers and practitioners from around the media industry to share their pioneering work.

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Low-energy light bulbs – blaming us for energy consumption

Published 8 January 2009

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.

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Portrait of William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

The nineteenth-century Greens

Published 16 July 2008

What would 19th-century Romantic poets like Wordsworth make of modern Greens? A half-hour broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

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Solar energy for British homes?

Published 5 April 2008

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.

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Facility Management

Shaping the Future of the Workplace

Published 19 March 2007

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.

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Should each person carry a Carbon Ration Card?

Published 20 July 2006

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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