From profits to prophets: why has big business gone woke?
James joined this panel led audience discussion at the Battle of Ideas festival 2021 on the pros & cons of Woke Capitalism and what’s driving it.
Is it all ‘woke wash’ and what does it mean for democracy if corporations play an increasingly activist role in pursuing a liberal agenda?
The speakers are:
Laura Bierer-Nielsen – Political consultant; Founder and Director, Foundation for Uyghur Freedom
Konstantin Kisin – Comedian; creator and co-host, TRIGGERnometry YouTube show; author, An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West
Professor Vicky Pryce – Chief Economic Adviser and Board Member, Centre for Economics and Business Research; author, Women vs Capitalism
Dr Diane Wei Liang – Professor of Business; author, The Eye of Jade and Lake with No Name
James Woudhuysen – Visiting professor, London South Bank University; co-author, Energise! A future for Energy Innovation; co-author, Why is Construction so Backward?
The Chair is Rob Killick – CEO, Clerkswell; author, The UK After the Recession.
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
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