by William Temple Foundation
06/09/2019 08:38
Associate Research Fellow Tina Hearn steps back from the current political turmoil to consider the wider context of our debate and how the conversation needs to be broadened. Jorge Luis Borges’ evocative essay ‘The Garden of Forking Pathways’ portrays life as a series of forking paths; each ‘fork’ signifies a point at which questions are […]
by Maria Power
23/08/2019 11:09
William Temple Foundation Trustee Maria Power reviews ‘Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook Catastrophe’ by Roger McNamee. The concerns are real and valid, she suggests, but can we do any better with our solutions? In The Great Hack, Carole Cadwalladr tells us that: “We literally can’t have a free and fair election in this country […]
Associate Research Fellow John Reader reviews ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power’ by Shoshana Zuboff, Professor Emerita at Harvard Business School, and wonders if our response ought to be even more radical. Like Thomas Picketty’s major opus ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ from a […]