To Drive Technological Progress, We Need Worker Power
The UK economy suffers from low economic growth and stubbornly poor productivity, resulting in stagnant living standards and exposing working people to a spiraling cost of living crisis. Successive governments have tried unsuccessfully to solve the “productivity paradox” by cutting taxes in an attempt to entice business to innovate. To understand why this has failed […]
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Building technological tools for nuclear disarmament | MIT News
Mentorship has played a central role in the twists and turns of Associate Professor Areg Danagoulian’s life. As a boy, it led him first to mathematics, where a passionate teacher and mentorship from his parents instilled in him a love for the subject. He then followed in the footsteps of his physicist parents and became […]
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PC, internet, smartphone: what’s the next big technological epoch? | John Naughton
One of the challenges of writing about technology is how to escape from what the sociologist Michael Mann memorably called “the sociology of the last five minutes”. This is especially difficult when covering the digital tech industry because one is continually deluged with ‘new’ stuff – viral memes, shiny new products or services, Facebook scandals […]
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