NSEC, and an apology…

Last Saturday I spoke at the National Student Enterprise Conference, addressing a group of young entrepreneurs, looking to set up businesses.
The conference was billed as “Business Not As Usual”, which I took to mean that we could look forward to two days of innovative thinking which could guide the next generation of entrepreneurs. The opening [...]

Seven Key Drivers of the Future

A good podcast from Ray Hammond here. It’s from something he did at Oxford University.
He calls himself a Futurologist as an ironic joke - Poking fun at the absurdity of a scientific ‘ology’ relating to the unpredictable.
The podcast is great because he really gets to the bottom of what he doesn’t know, while detailing his [...]

My Message to the G20

Dear G20.
You’re meeting in London this week, and talk will be dominated by the world economic crisis. This is inevitable, and correct, but it needs to be seen in its broadest context; inextricably linked with both climate change and social justice.
As far as I’ve seen, the heads of each G20 country now recognise the reality [...]