Tag: Technology
The EU is holding back innovation
Its plans for innovation have precious little to do with science and technology
Read the full article...The political economy of informal events, 2030
Below, a summary of my book – available at the bottom of this page – on #LiveEntertainment #musicfestivals #livemusic #nightclubs and events in the #arts and #sport.
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...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...What movies tell us about work
Movies, as everyone knows, form a powerful medium. So when we consider movies and the world of work, one thing ought to be obvious: to show a few classic movies at normal workplaces would be a useful innovation.
Read the full article...The culture of time and space
Review of Stephen Kern, The culture of time and space 1880-1918, and David Landes Revolution in time: clocks and the making of the modern world
Read the full article...King Miranda and the legacy of Italian design
England’s Perry King and Spain’s Santiago Miranda helped lead the 1980s revival of Milanese design
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CONFIRMED: Israel has just uncovered documents that prove 6 Al-Jazeera journalists are Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists.
A few of them are snipers; one is the head of Hamas rocket launching unit; and one is the head of their propaganda unit.
These are the…
BBC posts report proudly boasting that the ever assiduous @OrlaGuerin didn’t go where the IDF told her the money was, and so didn’t find it.
World stunned by this novel development.
Corbyn, Diane Abbott, Sadiq Khan, BLM, Stormzy, the entire Left-wing machine… All so quick to stand with thugs like Chris Kaba & George Floyd - simply because they’re black
They don’t unite us. They divide us with their poisonous race politics
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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