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THE WAR ON CASH
Here's fintech investor Rich Ricci invoking the spectre of millennials, with their strange moral power to define the future. They are repulsed by the revolting physicality of cash, and feel all warm towards fintech gadgets. But these are not, on the whole, real people. THE EXPERIMENTAL CITY The idea of the city as a laboratory is not new. Robert Park, the eminent Chicago sociologist, was the first to suggest it back in the 20s. Chicago was the quintessential 'instant city', even in 19th-century America's blank canvas of possibility. THE PERSIAN RUG, REIMAGINED Debbie Lawson’s sculptures – from Persian carpets inhabited by natural forms, to a set of chairs that perform the can-can – reappropriate everyday objects in playful, dreamlike ways TOO MANY PEOPLE, NOT ENOUGH JOBS Too many people, not enough jobs – preparing for the world without work. Ryan Avent's new book looks at how technology is changing labour markets. We spoke to him about having too many workers, basic income, the end of money, video games and Trump. In economics, as in life, sometimes there can be too much of a good thing. THE BURDENS OF ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE FACED BY DEVELOPING 58,000 babies died in India of resistant infections in 2013: more than 150 every day. Increasing access to quality antibiotics, however, is only one part of the solution. In fact, the BRICS countries had the greatest increases in antibiotic use between 2000 and 2010: 68 per cent in Brazil, 19 per cent in Russia, 66 per cent in India, 37 per WHAT CITIES OF THE FUTURE CAN LEARN FROM BRUTALISM The conventional wisdom goes that, for its all fury and fanfare, brutalism was a mere speck in architectural history; a 20-year experiment from 1955 to 1975 that produced some interesting outcomes and some downright weird cityscapes. Modernism is over, our faith in the future is damaged, and architecture today should just respond to what's already there rather than creating brave new worlds HOW THE BEATLES GAVE US THE CT SCAN, AND WHAT IT TELLS US Some have questioned the importance of EMI's cashflows to the CT scanner project, pointing to the importance of government funding to the underlying R&D.However, it's important to note that the project depended on much more than just R&D, and that this 'hidden innovation' funding came from EMI. The CT scanner was a remarkable feat of scienceand engineering.
MINING FOR ARGENTINA'S FINANCIAL FUTURE Likewise, Bloomberg has reported that the world's largest mining companies are looking to invest up to $5bn in Argentina, but only if there is an easing of capital restrictions following November's election. All eyes are now on new president Mauricio Macri, who THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN WHO HELPED WIN THE SPACE RACE The forgotten women who helped win the space race. Short. Three black women 'computers' instrumental to the Apollo missions of the 1960s are getting their due thanks in Hidden Figures, an unexpected US box office smash. Matilda Battersby speaks to the author of the book that inspired the film. 18th January 2017. WHO CAN YOU TRUST IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD? The PR firm Edelman has been assessing global levels of trust for the past 17 years. Their most recent Trust Barometer reports that: Two-thirds of the countries surveyed are now 'distrusters'. Less than 50 per cent trust in the mainstream institutions of business, government, media and NGOs toTHE WAR ON CASH
Here's fintech investor Rich Ricci invoking the spectre of millennials, with their strange moral power to define the future. They are repulsed by the revolting physicality of cash, and feel all warm towards fintech gadgets. But these are not, on the whole, real people. THE EXPERIMENTAL CITY The idea of the city as a laboratory is not new. Robert Park, the eminent Chicago sociologist, was the first to suggest it back in the 20s. Chicago was the quintessential 'instant city', even in 19th-century America's blank canvas of possibility. THE PERSIAN RUG, REIMAGINED Debbie Lawson’s sculptures – from Persian carpets inhabited by natural forms, to a set of chairs that perform the can-can – reappropriate everyday objects in playful, dreamlike ways TOO MANY PEOPLE, NOT ENOUGH JOBS Too many people, not enough jobs – preparing for the world without work. Ryan Avent's new book looks at how technology is changing labour markets. We spoke to him about having too many workers, basic income, the end of money, video games and Trump. In economics, as in life, sometimes there can be too much of a good thing. THE BURDENS OF ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE FACED BY DEVELOPING 58,000 babies died in India of resistant infections in 2013: more than 150 every day. Increasing access to quality antibiotics, however, is only one part of the solution. In fact, the BRICS countries had the greatest increases in antibiotic use between 2000 and 2010: 68 per cent in Brazil, 19 per cent in Russia, 66 per cent in India, 37 per WHAT CITIES OF THE FUTURE CAN LEARN FROM BRUTALISM The conventional wisdom goes that, for its all fury and fanfare, brutalism was a mere speck in architectural history; a 20-year experiment from 1955 to 1975 that produced some interesting outcomes and some downright weird cityscapes. Modernism is over, our faith in the future is damaged, and architecture today should just respond to what's already there rather than creating brave new worlds HOW THE BEATLES GAVE US THE CT SCAN, AND WHAT IT TELLS US Some have questioned the importance of EMI's cashflows to the CT scanner project, pointing to the importance of government funding to the underlying R&D.However, it's important to note that the project depended on much more than just R&D, and that this 'hidden innovation' funding came from EMI. The CT scanner was a remarkable feat of scienceand engineering.
MINING FOR ARGENTINA'S FINANCIAL FUTURE Likewise, Bloomberg has reported that the world's largest mining companies are looking to invest up to $5bn in Argentina, but only if there is an easing of capital restrictions following November's election. All eyes are now on new president Mauricio Macri, whoTHE LONG + SHORT
The Long and Short is a magazine of innovation, new ideas and how the world is changing, published by Nesta, the UK's innovation foundation THE EXPERIMENTAL CITY The idea of the city as a laboratory is not new. Robert Park, the eminent Chicago sociologist, was the first to suggest it back in the 20s. Chicago was the quintessential 'instant city', even in 19th-century America's blank canvas of possibility. WHO CAN YOU TRUST IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD? The PR firm Edelman has been assessing global levels of trust for the past 17 years. Their most recent Trust Barometer reports that: Two-thirds of the countries surveyed are now 'distrusters'. Less than 50 per cent trust in the mainstream institutions of business, government, media and NGOs toSYMBOLIC VALUES
If dollar-inspired vertical lines are relatively common, horizontal lines (either single or double) are even more popular. Examples include the Armenian dram (), the Laotian kip (â‚), the Nigerian naira (₦), the Philippine peso (₱), the Russian rouble (), the North Korean won (â‚©), and Japanese yen (Â¥).The parallel lines of the Turkish lira, however, are set rather rakishly at an angle MAKE YOUR OWN VIRTUAL REALITY BABY There is another generation of technologies that creates layers of reality in even more ambitious ways. Augmented reality specialists Magic Leap are getting hyped in Hollywood as much as in Silicon Valley, by promising to make layers of augmentation over your everyday reality. There are also more intimate consumer technologies that mediate between the reality you perceive and your brain'sDIGBY WARDE-ALDAM
The Long and Short is a magazine of innovation, new ideas and how the world is changing, published by Nesta, the UK's innovation foundation LEARN THE SKUNK WORKS WAY As the story of the lab became famous, ‘skunk works’ has, since the 70s, become the generic term for small, nimble teams operating at a remove from an organisation’s primary business, with a specific remit to innovate, experiment and take risks. MINING FOR ARGENTINA'S FINANCIAL FUTURE Likewise, Bloomberg has reported that the world's largest mining companies are looking to invest up to $5bn in Argentina, but only if there is an easing of capital restrictions following November's election. All eyes are now on new president Mauricio Macri, who MY FIRST CHEMISTRY SET A Merit chemistry set purchased by The Long + Short on eBay last week. There’s often a disparity between the anticipation of getting your hands on the product and the dull reality of using it, and chemistry sets provided children of the 1970s with a particularly irksome example of this. Any chemicals that may have been capable of causing CANNED DESIGNS: RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN IN PARIS Canned designs: Rip it up and start again in Paris. Urban planning is full of 'what ifs': designs for future cities that never materialised. Continuing a series, Christopher Beanland looks at Le Corbusier's plans to knock down and rebuild central Paris. If, as some contend, architecture is really just a priapic parlour game, then Le Corbusier THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN WHO HELPED WIN THE SPACE RACE The three women are the subject of Margot Lee Shetterly's book, Hidden Figures, which came out last year and has been turned into a Hollywood movie of the same name, which has soared to the top of the US box office, beating La La Land and Stars Wars in the process.. The film, released in the UK next month, stars Empire's Taraji P Henson as Johnson, Octavia Spencer as Vaughan and singer OBSTETRICS FOR BEGINNERS Creativity and innovation have many unlikely sources. What seems to have inspired Tydeman to develop his device was the characteristic sound of a Wellington boot being pulled free of wet, muddy ground: a slurpy, sucking, gurgling noise. CANNED DESIGNS: TWO SIDES OF GLASGOW Optimism. We forget that the 20th century was full of it. Perhaps because the dystopian narrative is more compelling. The picture of crazed lunatics in town planning offices with the gall to knock down half of a city and replace it with tower blocks is the image that recurs; it's the stick used to beat all of the philosophies that wentwith modernism.
WHAT CYBERSECURITY CAN LEARN FROM BIOLOGY One of the most successful companies exploiting this approach is the aptly named Darktrace.The algorithms Darktrace uses record and learn how each bit of a network operates so that it can build a model ofnormal activity.
WHO CAN YOU TRUST IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD? Trust has always been a dangerous business. Every instance of it brings the risk of let-down, disloyalty and betrayal. Still, in recent times, the vulnerability inherent in THE PERSIAN RUG, REIMAGINED Debbie Lawson’s sculptures – from Persian carpets inhabited by natural forms, to a set of chairs that perform the can-can – reappropriate everyday objects in playful, dreamlike ways HOT DESKS: INSIDE LEGO'S IMAGINATIVE LONDON OFFICE The LEGO Group, founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Christiansen, was born from humble yet tenacious beginnings when, through the Great Depression, the carpenter decided to shift focus from making furniture to wooden toys.Later he moved to construction toys: the brightly coloured plastic bricks known and loved by millions of fans today.THE WAR ON CASH
'Cashless society' is a euphemism for the "ask-your-banks-for-permission-to-pay society". Rather than an exchange occurring directly between the hotel and me, it takes the form of a "have your people talk to my people" affair. MINING FOR ARGENTINA'S FINANCIAL FUTURE In the village of El Chaltén in Argentine Patagonia, a small absurdist ritual takes place each day. Every morning, at the deli counter of the general store, its owner Felipe cuts two or three large salamis into dozens of smaller sections. THE HIGH-FUNCTIONING FOOTBALLING BRAIN Torbjörn Vestberg is a psychologist whose work focuses on the brain's executive functions. He is the lead author of the study Executive Functions Predict the Success of Top-Soccer Players, which looked beyond physical abilities and motor coordination to examine the importance of general executive functions to the success of footballplayers.
THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN WHO HELPED WIN THE SPACE RACE The three women are the subject of Margot Lee Shetterly's book, Hidden Figures, which came out last year and has been turned into a Hollywood movie of the same name, which has soared to the top of the US box office, beating La La Land and Stars Wars in the process.. The film, released in the UK next month, stars Empire's Taraji P Henson as Johnson, Octavia Spencer as Vaughan and singer OBSTETRICS FOR BEGINNERS Creativity and innovation have many unlikely sources. What seems to have inspired Tydeman to develop his device was the characteristic sound of a Wellington boot being pulled free of wet, muddy ground: a slurpy, sucking, gurgling noise. CANNED DESIGNS: TWO SIDES OF GLASGOW Optimism. We forget that the 20th century was full of it. Perhaps because the dystopian narrative is more compelling. The picture of crazed lunatics in town planning offices with the gall to knock down half of a city and replace it with tower blocks is the image that recurs; it's the stick used to beat all of the philosophies that wentwith modernism.
WHAT CYBERSECURITY CAN LEARN FROM BIOLOGY One of the most successful companies exploiting this approach is the aptly named Darktrace.The algorithms Darktrace uses record and learn how each bit of a network operates so that it can build a model ofnormal activity.
WHO CAN YOU TRUST IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD? Trust has always been a dangerous business. Every instance of it brings the risk of let-down, disloyalty and betrayal. Still, in recent times, the vulnerability inherent in THE PERSIAN RUG, REIMAGINED Debbie Lawson’s sculptures – from Persian carpets inhabited by natural forms, to a set of chairs that perform the can-can – reappropriate everyday objects in playful, dreamlike ways HOT DESKS: INSIDE LEGO'S IMAGINATIVE LONDON OFFICE The LEGO Group, founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Christiansen, was born from humble yet tenacious beginnings when, through the Great Depression, the carpenter decided to shift focus from making furniture to wooden toys.Later he moved to construction toys: the brightly coloured plastic bricks known and loved by millions of fans today.THE WAR ON CASH
'Cashless society' is a euphemism for the "ask-your-banks-for-permission-to-pay society". Rather than an exchange occurring directly between the hotel and me, it takes the form of a "have your people talk to my people" affair. MINING FOR ARGENTINA'S FINANCIAL FUTURE In the village of El Chaltén in Argentine Patagonia, a small absurdist ritual takes place each day. Every morning, at the deli counter of the general store, its owner Felipe cuts two or three large salamis into dozens of smaller sections. THE HIGH-FUNCTIONING FOOTBALLING BRAIN Torbjörn Vestberg is a psychologist whose work focuses on the brain's executive functions. He is the lead author of the study Executive Functions Predict the Success of Top-Soccer Players, which looked beyond physical abilities and motor coordination to examine the importance of general executive functions to the success of footballplayers.
THE LONG + SHORT
The Long and Short is a magazine of innovation, new ideas and how the world is changing, published by Nesta, the UK's innovation foundation THE PERSIAN RUG, REIMAGINED Debbie Lawson’s sculptures – from Persian carpets inhabited by natural forms, to a set of chairs that perform the can-can – reappropriate everyday objects in playful, dreamlike ways INNOVATION HEROES, #3: GEOFFREY PYKE Pyke, like Pykrete, has largely been forgotten since. At the end of his life, depressed, he said he would be glad to go unremembered. But a new book by Henry Hemming revives and celebrates Pyke's story, and tells many more tales of his eccentric character and verve for invention. It describes how he changed the landscape of preschool education in the UK by building a radical school of his own WHO CAN YOU TRUST IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD? Trust has always been a dangerous business. Every instance of it brings the risk of let-down, disloyalty and betrayal. Still, in recent times, the vulnerability inherent in SAMPLE THE AMEN BREAK Much of today's music is built around samples of other recordings, in one way or another. Whole genres depend on it. The 'Amen break', a six-second drum solo plundered from an obscure 60s soul record, is one of the most sampled clips in music history: first adopted by the pioneering samplers of 80s hip-hop, before being diced, layered and endlessly manipulated beyond recognition – laying the MAKE YOUR OWN VIRTUAL REALITY BABY There is another generation of technologies that creates layers of reality in even more ambitious ways. Augmented reality specialists Magic Leap are getting hyped in Hollywood as much as in Silicon Valley, by promising to make layers of augmentation over your everyday reality. There are also more intimate consumer technologies that mediate between the reality you perceive and your brain's DANCE MOVES: JAMES BROWN'S SINGLE-HANDED INVENTION OF FUNK Brown's the Famous Flames had rushed into filling the space vacated by their idol Little Richard when the flamboyant rock 'n' roller retired from secular music in the 1950s (quite literally – the young group were booked to replace Richard on tour following his sudden conversion to preacher following a near-death experience while flying overAustralia).
MINING FOR ARGENTINA'S FINANCIAL FUTURE In the village of El Chaltén in Argentine Patagonia, a small absurdist ritual takes place each day. Every morning, at the deli counter of the general store, its owner Felipe cuts two or three large salamis into dozens of smaller sections.THE WAR ON CASH
Several months ago I stayed in an offbeat Amsterdam hotel that brewed its own beer but refused to accept cash for it. Instead, they forced me to use the Visa payment card network to get my UK bank to transfer €4 to their Dutch bank via the elaborate international correspondent banking system.. I was there with civil liberties campaigner BenHayes.
HOT DESKS: INSIDE LEGO'S IMAGINATIVE LONDON OFFICE The LEGO Group, founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Christiansen, was born from humble yet tenacious beginnings when, through the Great Depression, the carpenter decided to shift focus from making furniture to wooden toys.Later he moved to construction toys: the brightly coloured plastic bricks known and loved by millions of fans today. THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN WHO HELPED WIN THE SPACE RACE The forgotten women who helped win the space race. Short. Three black women 'computers' instrumental to the Apollo missions of the 1960s are getting their due thanks in Hidden Figures, an unexpected US box office smash. Matilda Battersby speaks to the author of the book that inspired the film. 18th January 2017. WHO CAN YOU TRUST IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD? The PR firm Edelman has been assessing global levels of trust for the past 17 years. Their most recent Trust Barometer reports that: Two-thirds of the countries surveyed are now 'distrusters'. Less than 50 per cent trust in the mainstream institutions of business, government, media and NGOs to THE EXPERIMENTAL CITY The idea of the city as a laboratory is not new. Robert Park, the eminent Chicago sociologist, was the first to suggest it back in the 20s. Chicago was the quintessential 'instant city', even in 19th-century America's blank canvas of possibility. THE PERSIAN RUG, REIMAGINED Debbie Lawson’s sculptures – from Persian carpets inhabited by natural forms, to a set of chairs that perform the can-can – reappropriate everyday objects in playful, dreamlike waysTHE WAR ON CASH
Here's fintech investor Rich Ricci invoking the spectre of millennials, with their strange moral power to define the future. They are repulsed by the revolting physicality of cash, and feel all warm towards fintech gadgets. But these are not, on the whole, real people. TOO MANY PEOPLE, NOT ENOUGH JOBS Too many people, not enough jobs – preparing for the world without work. Ryan Avent's new book looks at how technology is changing labour markets. We spoke to him about having too many workers, basic income, the end of money, video games and Trump. In economics, as in life, sometimes there can be too much of a good thing. DANCE MOVES: JAMES BROWN'S SINGLE-HANDED INVENTION OF FUNK Dance moves: James Brown's single-handed invention of funk. The music blog 20jazzfunkgreats is charting 20th-century periods of innovation that spurred the evolution of music to dance to. In the latest instalment, James Brown drums his way to a new genre. "The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing," is James Brown's most HOW THE BEATLES GAVE US THE CT SCAN, AND WHAT IT TELLS US Over four years, Hounsfield and his team invented and built the first computed tomography scanner (CT or CAT scanners for short – the extra A stands for 'axial'). In the mid-1960s the Beatles were an economic force, earning $650 a second. The dollar receipts from their overseas tours are credited with saving Harold Wilson's governmentfrom
WHAT CITIES OF THE FUTURE CAN LEARN FROM BRUTALISM The conventional wisdom goes that, for its all fury and fanfare, brutalism was a mere speck in architectural history; a 20-year experiment from 1955 to 1975 that produced some interesting outcomes and some downright weird cityscapes. Modernism is over, our faith in the future is damaged, and architecture today should just respond to what's already there rather than creating brave new worlds CANNED DESIGNS: RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN IN PARIS Canned designs: Rip it up and start again in Paris. Urban planning is full of 'what ifs': designs for future cities that never materialised. Continuing a series, Christopher Beanland looks at Le Corbusier's plans to knock down and rebuild central Paris. If, as some contend, architecture is really just a priapic parlour game, then Le Corbusier THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN WHO HELPED WIN THE SPACE RACE The forgotten women who helped win the space race. Short. Three black women 'computers' instrumental to the Apollo missions of the 1960s are getting their due thanks in Hidden Figures, an unexpected US box office smash. Matilda Battersby speaks to the author of the book that inspired the film. 18th January 2017. WHO CAN YOU TRUST IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD? The PR firm Edelman has been assessing global levels of trust for the past 17 years. Their most recent Trust Barometer reports that: Two-thirds of the countries surveyed are now 'distrusters'. Less than 50 per cent trust in the mainstream institutions of business, government, media and NGOs to THE EXPERIMENTAL CITY The idea of the city as a laboratory is not new. Robert Park, the eminent Chicago sociologist, was the first to suggest it back in the 20s. Chicago was the quintessential 'instant city', even in 19th-century America's blank canvas of possibility. THE PERSIAN RUG, REIMAGINED Debbie Lawson’s sculptures – from Persian carpets inhabited by natural forms, to a set of chairs that perform the can-can – reappropriate everyday objects in playful, dreamlike waysTHE WAR ON CASH
Here's fintech investor Rich Ricci invoking the spectre of millennials, with their strange moral power to define the future. They are repulsed by the revolting physicality of cash, and feel all warm towards fintech gadgets. But these are not, on the whole, real people. TOO MANY PEOPLE, NOT ENOUGH JOBS Too many people, not enough jobs – preparing for the world without work. Ryan Avent's new book looks at how technology is changing labour markets. We spoke to him about having too many workers, basic income, the end of money, video games and Trump. In economics, as in life, sometimes there can be too much of a good thing. DANCE MOVES: JAMES BROWN'S SINGLE-HANDED INVENTION OF FUNK Dance moves: James Brown's single-handed invention of funk. The music blog 20jazzfunkgreats is charting 20th-century periods of innovation that spurred the evolution of music to dance to. In the latest instalment, James Brown drums his way to a new genre. "The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing," is James Brown's most HOW THE BEATLES GAVE US THE CT SCAN, AND WHAT IT TELLS US Over four years, Hounsfield and his team invented and built the first computed tomography scanner (CT or CAT scanners for short – the extra A stands for 'axial'). In the mid-1960s the Beatles were an economic force, earning $650 a second. The dollar receipts from their overseas tours are credited with saving Harold Wilson's governmentfrom
WHAT CITIES OF THE FUTURE CAN LEARN FROM BRUTALISM The conventional wisdom goes that, for its all fury and fanfare, brutalism was a mere speck in architectural history; a 20-year experiment from 1955 to 1975 that produced some interesting outcomes and some downright weird cityscapes. Modernism is over, our faith in the future is damaged, and architecture today should just respond to what's already there rather than creating brave new worlds CANNED DESIGNS: RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN IN PARIS Canned designs: Rip it up and start again in Paris. Urban planning is full of 'what ifs': designs for future cities that never materialised. Continuing a series, Christopher Beanland looks at Le Corbusier's plans to knock down and rebuild central Paris. If, as some contend, architecture is really just a priapic parlour game, then Le CorbusierTHE LONG + SHORT
The Long and Short is a magazine of innovation, new ideas and how the world is changing, published by Nesta, the UK's innovation foundation WHO CAN YOU TRUST IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD? The PR firm Edelman has been assessing global levels of trust for the past 17 years. Their most recent Trust Barometer reports that: Two-thirds of the countries surveyed are now 'distrusters'. Less than 50 per cent trust in the mainstream institutions of business, government, media and NGOs to THE EXPERIMENTAL CITY The idea of the city as a laboratory is not new. Robert Park, the eminent Chicago sociologist, was the first to suggest it back in the 20s. Chicago was the quintessential 'instant city', even in 19th-century America's blank canvas of possibility. LEARN THE SKUNK WORKS WAY As the story of the lab became famous, ‘skunk works’ has, since the 70s, become the generic term for small, nimble teams operating at a remove from an organisation’s primary business, with a specific remit to innovate, experiment and take risks.BUTTERFLY EFFECTS
So I was underwhelmed by the prospect of visiting cutting edge Japanese art collective teamLab's new installation at Mayfair's Pace gallery.According to Pace, teamLab (note the gnomically lower-case initial) is an "interdisciplinary group of ultra-technologists whose collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, technology, design and the natural world." SUPERHUMAN AFTER ALL The day I finished reading Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, by the Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari, also happened to be the day that Uber finally began its long-awaited phasing out of human employees.The company had just launched a new pilot scheme, in the city of Pittsburgh, in which its customers could be conveyed from A to B by driverless vehicles. MY FIRST CHEMISTRY SET A Merit chemistry set purchased by The Long + Short on eBay last week. There’s often a disparity between the anticipation of getting your hands on the product and the dull reality of using it, and chemistry sets provided children of the 1970s with a particularly irksome example of this. Any chemicals that may have been capable of causing CANNED DESIGNS: RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN IN PARIS If, as some contend, architecture is really just a priapic parlour game, then Le Corbusier's plan Voisin is the equivalent of short-man-in-a-sports-car syndrome.. Le Corbusier was a grouchy Swiss polymath who went on to dominate the design world in the 50s and 60s. NEW MONEY: DO LOCAL CURRENCIES ACTUALLY WORK? The Bristol Pound (£B) entered into circulation in September 2012. By June 2015, 1m £B had been issued, with £B700,000 of that still in circulation. In a population of some 450,000 people, that's the equivalent of each Bristolian carrying less than £B2 in change intheir pocket.
MINING FOR ARGENTINA'S FINANCIAL FUTURE Likewise, Bloomberg has reported that the world's largest mining companies are looking to invest up to $5bn in Argentina, but only if there is an easing of capital restrictions following November's election. All eyes are now on new president Mauricio Macri, who THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN WHO HELPED WIN THE SPACE RACE The forgotten women who helped win the space race. Short. Three black women 'computers' instrumental to the Apollo missions of the 1960s are getting their due thanks in Hidden Figures, an unexpected US box office smash. Matilda Battersby speaks to the author of the book that inspired the film. 18th January 2017. WHO CAN YOU TRUST IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD? The PR firm Edelman has been assessing global levels of trust for the past 17 years. Their most recent Trust Barometer reports that: Two-thirds of the countries surveyed are now 'distrusters'. Less than 50 per cent trust in the mainstream institutions of business, government, media and NGOs to THE EXPERIMENTAL CITY The idea of the city as a laboratory is not new. Robert Park, the eminent Chicago sociologist, was the first to suggest it back in the 20s. Chicago was the quintessential 'instant city', even in 19th-century America's blank canvas of possibility. THE PERSIAN RUG, REIMAGINED Debbie Lawson’s sculptures – from Persian carpets inhabited by natural forms, to a set of chairs that perform the can-can – reappropriate everyday objects in playful, dreamlike waysTHE WAR ON CASH
Here's fintech investor Rich Ricci invoking the spectre of millennials, with their strange moral power to define the future. They are repulsed by the revolting physicality of cash, and feel all warm towards fintech gadgets. But these are not, on the whole, real people. TOO MANY PEOPLE, NOT ENOUGH JOBS Too many people, not enough jobs – preparing for the world without work. Ryan Avent's new book looks at how technology is changing labour markets. We spoke to him about having too many workers, basic income, the end of money, video games and Trump. In economics, as in life, sometimes there can be too much of a good thing. DANCE MOVES: JAMES BROWN'S SINGLE-HANDED INVENTION OF FUNK Dance moves: James Brown's single-handed invention of funk. The music blog 20jazzfunkgreats is charting 20th-century periods of innovation that spurred the evolution of music to dance to. In the latest instalment, James Brown drums his way to a new genre. "The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing," is James Brown's most HOW THE BEATLES GAVE US THE CT SCAN, AND WHAT IT TELLS US Over four years, Hounsfield and his team invented and built the first computed tomography scanner (CT or CAT scanners for short – the extra A stands for 'axial'). In the mid-1960s the Beatles were an economic force, earning $650 a second. The dollar receipts from their overseas tours are credited with saving Harold Wilson's governmentfrom
WHAT CITIES OF THE FUTURE CAN LEARN FROM BRUTALISM The conventional wisdom goes that, for its all fury and fanfare, brutalism was a mere speck in architectural history; a 20-year experiment from 1955 to 1975 that produced some interesting outcomes and some downright weird cityscapes. Modernism is over, our faith in the future is damaged, and architecture today should just respond to what's already there rather than creating brave new worlds CANNED DESIGNS: RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN IN PARIS Canned designs: Rip it up and start again in Paris. Urban planning is full of 'what ifs': designs for future cities that never materialised. Continuing a series, Christopher Beanland looks at Le Corbusier's plans to knock down and rebuild central Paris. If, as some contend, architecture is really just a priapic parlour game, then Le Corbusier THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN WHO HELPED WIN THE SPACE RACE The forgotten women who helped win the space race. Short. Three black women 'computers' instrumental to the Apollo missions of the 1960s are getting their due thanks in Hidden Figures, an unexpected US box office smash. Matilda Battersby speaks to the author of the book that inspired the film. 18th January 2017. WHO CAN YOU TRUST IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD? The PR firm Edelman has been assessing global levels of trust for the past 17 years. Their most recent Trust Barometer reports that: Two-thirds of the countries surveyed are now 'distrusters'. Less than 50 per cent trust in the mainstream institutions of business, government, media and NGOs to THE EXPERIMENTAL CITY The idea of the city as a laboratory is not new. Robert Park, the eminent Chicago sociologist, was the first to suggest it back in the 20s. Chicago was the quintessential 'instant city', even in 19th-century America's blank canvas of possibility. THE PERSIAN RUG, REIMAGINED Debbie Lawson’s sculptures – from Persian carpets inhabited by natural forms, to a set of chairs that perform the can-can – reappropriate everyday objects in playful, dreamlike waysTHE WAR ON CASH
Here's fintech investor Rich Ricci invoking the spectre of millennials, with their strange moral power to define the future. They are repulsed by the revolting physicality of cash, and feel all warm towards fintech gadgets. But these are not, on the whole, real people. TOO MANY PEOPLE, NOT ENOUGH JOBS Too many people, not enough jobs – preparing for the world without work. Ryan Avent's new book looks at how technology is changing labour markets. We spoke to him about having too many workers, basic income, the end of money, video games and Trump. In economics, as in life, sometimes there can be too much of a good thing. DANCE MOVES: JAMES BROWN'S SINGLE-HANDED INVENTION OF FUNK Dance moves: James Brown's single-handed invention of funk. The music blog 20jazzfunkgreats is charting 20th-century periods of innovation that spurred the evolution of music to dance to. In the latest instalment, James Brown drums his way to a new genre. "The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing," is James Brown's most HOW THE BEATLES GAVE US THE CT SCAN, AND WHAT IT TELLS US Over four years, Hounsfield and his team invented and built the first computed tomography scanner (CT or CAT scanners for short – the extra A stands for 'axial'). In the mid-1960s the Beatles were an economic force, earning $650 a second. The dollar receipts from their overseas tours are credited with saving Harold Wilson's governmentfrom
WHAT CITIES OF THE FUTURE CAN LEARN FROM BRUTALISM The conventional wisdom goes that, for its all fury and fanfare, brutalism was a mere speck in architectural history; a 20-year experiment from 1955 to 1975 that produced some interesting outcomes and some downright weird cityscapes. Modernism is over, our faith in the future is damaged, and architecture today should just respond to what's already there rather than creating brave new worlds CANNED DESIGNS: RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN IN PARIS Canned designs: Rip it up and start again in Paris. Urban planning is full of 'what ifs': designs for future cities that never materialised. Continuing a series, Christopher Beanland looks at Le Corbusier's plans to knock down and rebuild central Paris. If, as some contend, architecture is really just a priapic parlour game, then Le CorbusierTHE LONG + SHORT
The Long and Short is a magazine of innovation, new ideas and how the world is changing, published by Nesta, the UK's innovation foundation WHO CAN YOU TRUST IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD? The PR firm Edelman has been assessing global levels of trust for the past 17 years. Their most recent Trust Barometer reports that: Two-thirds of the countries surveyed are now 'distrusters'. Less than 50 per cent trust in the mainstream institutions of business, government, media and NGOs to THE EXPERIMENTAL CITY The idea of the city as a laboratory is not new. Robert Park, the eminent Chicago sociologist, was the first to suggest it back in the 20s. Chicago was the quintessential 'instant city', even in 19th-century America's blank canvas of possibility. LEARN THE SKUNK WORKS WAY As the story of the lab became famous, ‘skunk works’ has, since the 70s, become the generic term for small, nimble teams operating at a remove from an organisation’s primary business, with a specific remit to innovate, experiment and take risks.BUTTERFLY EFFECTS
So I was underwhelmed by the prospect of visiting cutting edge Japanese art collective teamLab's new installation at Mayfair's Pace gallery.According to Pace, teamLab (note the gnomically lower-case initial) is an "interdisciplinary group of ultra-technologists whose collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, technology, design and the natural world." SUPERHUMAN AFTER ALL The day I finished reading Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, by the Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari, also happened to be the day that Uber finally began its long-awaited phasing out of human employees.The company had just launched a new pilot scheme, in the city of Pittsburgh, in which its customers could be conveyed from A to B by driverless vehicles. MY FIRST CHEMISTRY SET A Merit chemistry set purchased by The Long + Short on eBay last week. There’s often a disparity between the anticipation of getting your hands on the product and the dull reality of using it, and chemistry sets provided children of the 1970s with a particularly irksome example of this. Any chemicals that may have been capable of causing CANNED DESIGNS: RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN IN PARIS If, as some contend, architecture is really just a priapic parlour game, then Le Corbusier's plan Voisin is the equivalent of short-man-in-a-sports-car syndrome.. Le Corbusier was a grouchy Swiss polymath who went on to dominate the design world in the 50s and 60s. NEW MONEY: DO LOCAL CURRENCIES ACTUALLY WORK? The Bristol Pound (£B) entered into circulation in September 2012. By June 2015, 1m £B had been issued, with £B700,000 of that still in circulation. In a population of some 450,000 people, that's the equivalent of each Bristolian carrying less than £B2 in change intheir pocket.
MINING FOR ARGENTINA'S FINANCIAL FUTURE Likewise, Bloomberg has reported that the world's largest mining companies are looking to invest up to $5bn in Argentina, but only if there is an easing of capital restrictions following November's election. All eyes are now on new president Mauricio Macri, who THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN WHO HELPED WIN THE SPACE RACE The forgotten women who helped win the space race. Short. Three black women 'computers' instrumental to the Apollo missions of the 1960s are getting their due thanks in Hidden Figures, an unexpected US box office smash. Matilda Battersby speaks to the author of the book that inspired the film. 18th January 2017. WHO CAN YOU TRUST IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD? The PR firm Edelman has been assessing global levels of trust for the past 17 years. Their most recent Trust Barometer reports that: Two-thirds of the countries surveyed are now 'distrusters'. Less than 50 per cent trust in the mainstream institutions of business, government, media and NGOs to THE EXPERIMENTAL CITY The idea of the city as a laboratory is not new. Robert Park, the eminent Chicago sociologist, was the first to suggest it back in the 20s. Chicago was the quintessential 'instant city', even in 19th-century America's blank canvas of possibility. THE PERSIAN RUG, REIMAGINED Debbie Lawson’s sculptures – from Persian carpets inhabited by natural forms, to a set of chairs that perform the can-can – reappropriate everyday objects in playful, dreamlike waysTHE WAR ON CASH
Here's fintech investor Rich Ricci invoking the spectre of millennials, with their strange moral power to define the future. They are repulsed by the revolting physicality of cash, and feel all warm towards fintech gadgets. But these are not, on the whole, real people. TOO MANY PEOPLE, NOT ENOUGH JOBS Too many people, not enough jobs – preparing for the world without work. Ryan Avent's new book looks at how technology is changing labour markets. We spoke to him about having too many workers, basic income, the end of money, video games and Trump. In economics, as in life, sometimes there can be too much of a good thing. DANCE MOVES: JAMES BROWN'S SINGLE-HANDED INVENTION OF FUNK Dance moves: James Brown's single-handed invention of funk. The music blog 20jazzfunkgreats is charting 20th-century periods of innovation that spurred the evolution of music to dance to. In the latest instalment, James Brown drums his way to a new genre. "The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing," is James Brown's most HOW THE BEATLES GAVE US THE CT SCAN, AND WHAT IT TELLS US Over four years, Hounsfield and his team invented and built the first computed tomography scanner (CT or CAT scanners for short – the extra A stands for 'axial'). In the mid-1960s the Beatles were an economic force, earning $650 a second. The dollar receipts from their overseas tours are credited with saving Harold Wilson's governmentfrom
WHAT CITIES OF THE FUTURE CAN LEARN FROM BRUTALISM The conventional wisdom goes that, for its all fury and fanfare, brutalism was a mere speck in architectural history; a 20-year experiment from 1955 to 1975 that produced some interesting outcomes and some downright weird cityscapes. Modernism is over, our faith in the future is damaged, and architecture today should just respond to what's already there rather than creating brave new worlds CANNED DESIGNS: RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN IN PARIS Canned designs: Rip it up and start again in Paris. Urban planning is full of 'what ifs': designs for future cities that never materialised. Continuing a series, Christopher Beanland looks at Le Corbusier's plans to knock down and rebuild central Paris. If, as some contend, architecture is really just a priapic parlour game, then Le Corbusier THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN WHO HELPED WIN THE SPACE RACE The forgotten women who helped win the space race. Short. Three black women 'computers' instrumental to the Apollo missions of the 1960s are getting their due thanks in Hidden Figures, an unexpected US box office smash. Matilda Battersby speaks to the author of the book that inspired the film. 18th January 2017. WHO CAN YOU TRUST IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD? The PR firm Edelman has been assessing global levels of trust for the past 17 years. Their most recent Trust Barometer reports that: Two-thirds of the countries surveyed are now 'distrusters'. Less than 50 per cent trust in the mainstream institutions of business, government, media and NGOs to THE EXPERIMENTAL CITY The idea of the city as a laboratory is not new. Robert Park, the eminent Chicago sociologist, was the first to suggest it back in the 20s. Chicago was the quintessential 'instant city', even in 19th-century America's blank canvas of possibility. THE PERSIAN RUG, REIMAGINED Debbie Lawson’s sculptures – from Persian carpets inhabited by natural forms, to a set of chairs that perform the can-can – reappropriate everyday objects in playful, dreamlike waysTHE WAR ON CASH
Here's fintech investor Rich Ricci invoking the spectre of millennials, with their strange moral power to define the future. They are repulsed by the revolting physicality of cash, and feel all warm towards fintech gadgets. But these are not, on the whole, real people. TOO MANY PEOPLE, NOT ENOUGH JOBS Too many people, not enough jobs – preparing for the world without work. Ryan Avent's new book looks at how technology is changing labour markets. We spoke to him about having too many workers, basic income, the end of money, video games and Trump. In economics, as in life, sometimes there can be too much of a good thing. DANCE MOVES: JAMES BROWN'S SINGLE-HANDED INVENTION OF FUNK Dance moves: James Brown's single-handed invention of funk. The music blog 20jazzfunkgreats is charting 20th-century periods of innovation that spurred the evolution of music to dance to. In the latest instalment, James Brown drums his way to a new genre. "The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing," is James Brown's most HOW THE BEATLES GAVE US THE CT SCAN, AND WHAT IT TELLS US Over four years, Hounsfield and his team invented and built the first computed tomography scanner (CT or CAT scanners for short – the extra A stands for 'axial'). In the mid-1960s the Beatles were an economic force, earning $650 a second. The dollar receipts from their overseas tours are credited with saving Harold Wilson's governmentfrom
WHAT CITIES OF THE FUTURE CAN LEARN FROM BRUTALISM The conventional wisdom goes that, for its all fury and fanfare, brutalism was a mere speck in architectural history; a 20-year experiment from 1955 to 1975 that produced some interesting outcomes and some downright weird cityscapes. Modernism is over, our faith in the future is damaged, and architecture today should just respond to what's already there rather than creating brave new worlds CANNED DESIGNS: RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN IN PARIS Canned designs: Rip it up and start again in Paris. Urban planning is full of 'what ifs': designs for future cities that never materialised. Continuing a series, Christopher Beanland looks at Le Corbusier's plans to knock down and rebuild central Paris. If, as some contend, architecture is really just a priapic parlour game, then Le CorbusierTHE LONG + SHORT
The Long and Short is a magazine of innovation, new ideas and how the world is changing, published by Nesta, the UK's innovation foundation WHO CAN YOU TRUST IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD? The PR firm Edelman has been assessing global levels of trust for the past 17 years. Their most recent Trust Barometer reports that: Two-thirds of the countries surveyed are now 'distrusters'. Less than 50 per cent trust in the mainstream institutions of business, government, media and NGOs to THE EXPERIMENTAL CITY The idea of the city as a laboratory is not new. Robert Park, the eminent Chicago sociologist, was the first to suggest it back in the 20s. Chicago was the quintessential 'instant city', even in 19th-century America's blank canvas of possibility. LEARN THE SKUNK WORKS WAY As the story of the lab became famous, ‘skunk works’ has, since the 70s, become the generic term for small, nimble teams operating at a remove from an organisation’s primary business, with a specific remit to innovate, experiment and take risks.BUTTERFLY EFFECTS
So I was underwhelmed by the prospect of visiting cutting edge Japanese art collective teamLab's new installation at Mayfair's Pace gallery.According to Pace, teamLab (note the gnomically lower-case initial) is an "interdisciplinary group of ultra-technologists whose collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, technology, design and the natural world." SUPERHUMAN AFTER ALL The day I finished reading Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, by the Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari, also happened to be the day that Uber finally began its long-awaited phasing out of human employees.The company had just launched a new pilot scheme, in the city of Pittsburgh, in which its customers could be conveyed from A to B by driverless vehicles. MY FIRST CHEMISTRY SET A Merit chemistry set purchased by The Long + Short on eBay last week. There’s often a disparity between the anticipation of getting your hands on the product and the dull reality of using it, and chemistry sets provided children of the 1970s with a particularly irksome example of this. Any chemicals that may have been capable of causing CANNED DESIGNS: RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN IN PARIS If, as some contend, architecture is really just a priapic parlour game, then Le Corbusier's plan Voisin is the equivalent of short-man-in-a-sports-car syndrome.. Le Corbusier was a grouchy Swiss polymath who went on to dominate the design world in the 50s and 60s. NEW MONEY: DO LOCAL CURRENCIES ACTUALLY WORK? The Bristol Pound (£B) entered into circulation in September 2012. By June 2015, 1m £B had been issued, with £B700,000 of that still in circulation. In a population of some 450,000 people, that's the equivalent of each Bristolian carrying less than £B2 in change intheir pocket.
MINING FOR ARGENTINA'S FINANCIAL FUTURE Likewise, Bloomberg has reported that the world's largest mining companies are looking to invest up to $5bn in Argentina, but only if there is an easing of capital restrictions following November's election. All eyes are now on new president Mauricio Macri, who THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN WHO HELPED WIN THE SPACE RACE The forgotten women who helped win the space race. Short. Three black women 'computers' instrumental to the Apollo missions of the 1960s are getting their due thanks in Hidden Figures, an unexpected US box office smash. Matilda Battersby speaks to the author of the book that inspired the film. 18th January 2017. WHO CAN YOU TRUST IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD? The PR firm Edelman has been assessing global levels of trust for the past 17 years. Their most recent Trust Barometer reports that: Two-thirds of the countries surveyed are now 'distrusters'. Less than 50 per cent trust in the mainstream institutions of business, government, media and NGOs to THE EXPERIMENTAL CITY The idea of the city as a laboratory is not new. Robert Park, the eminent Chicago sociologist, was the first to suggest it back in the 20s. Chicago was the quintessential 'instant city', even in 19th-century America's blank canvas of possibility. THE PERSIAN RUG, REIMAGINED Debbie Lawson’s sculptures – from Persian carpets inhabited by natural forms, to a set of chairs that perform the can-can – reappropriate everyday objects in playful, dreamlike waysTHE WAR ON CASH
Here's fintech investor Rich Ricci invoking the spectre of millennials, with their strange moral power to define the future. They are repulsed by the revolting physicality of cash, and feel all warm towards fintech gadgets. But these are not, on the whole, real people. TOO MANY PEOPLE, NOT ENOUGH JOBS Too many people, not enough jobs – preparing for the world without work. Ryan Avent's new book looks at how technology is changing labour markets. We spoke to him about having too many workers, basic income, the end of money, video games and Trump. In economics, as in life, sometimes there can be too much of a good thing. DANCE MOVES: JAMES BROWN'S SINGLE-HANDED INVENTION OF FUNK Dance moves: James Brown's single-handed invention of funk. The music blog 20jazzfunkgreats is charting 20th-century periods of innovation that spurred the evolution of music to dance to. In the latest instalment, James Brown drums his way to a new genre. "The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing," is James Brown's most HOW THE BEATLES GAVE US THE CT SCAN, AND WHAT IT TELLS US Over four years, Hounsfield and his team invented and built the first computed tomography scanner (CT or CAT scanners for short – the extra A stands for 'axial'). In the mid-1960s the Beatles were an economic force, earning $650 a second. The dollar receipts from their overseas tours are credited with saving Harold Wilson's governmentfrom
WHAT CITIES OF THE FUTURE CAN LEARN FROM BRUTALISM The conventional wisdom goes that, for its all fury and fanfare, brutalism was a mere speck in architectural history; a 20-year experiment from 1955 to 1975 that produced some interesting outcomes and some downright weird cityscapes. Modernism is over, our faith in the future is damaged, and architecture today should just respond to what's already there rather than creating brave new worlds CANNED DESIGNS: RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN IN PARIS Canned designs: Rip it up and start again in Paris. Urban planning is full of 'what ifs': designs for future cities that never materialised. Continuing a series, Christopher Beanland looks at Le Corbusier's plans to knock down and rebuild central Paris. If, as some contend, architecture is really just a priapic parlour game, then Le Corbusier THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN WHO HELPED WIN THE SPACE RACE The forgotten women who helped win the space race. Short. Three black women 'computers' instrumental to the Apollo missions of the 1960s are getting their due thanks in Hidden Figures, an unexpected US box office smash. Matilda Battersby speaks to the author of the book that inspired the film. 18th January 2017. WHO CAN YOU TRUST IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD? The PR firm Edelman has been assessing global levels of trust for the past 17 years. Their most recent Trust Barometer reports that: Two-thirds of the countries surveyed are now 'distrusters'. Less than 50 per cent trust in the mainstream institutions of business, government, media and NGOs to THE EXPERIMENTAL CITY The idea of the city as a laboratory is not new. Robert Park, the eminent Chicago sociologist, was the first to suggest it back in the 20s. Chicago was the quintessential 'instant city', even in 19th-century America's blank canvas of possibility. THE PERSIAN RUG, REIMAGINED Debbie Lawson’s sculptures – from Persian carpets inhabited by natural forms, to a set of chairs that perform the can-can – reappropriate everyday objects in playful, dreamlike waysTHE WAR ON CASH
Here's fintech investor Rich Ricci invoking the spectre of millennials, with their strange moral power to define the future. They are repulsed by the revolting physicality of cash, and feel all warm towards fintech gadgets. But these are not, on the whole, real people. TOO MANY PEOPLE, NOT ENOUGH JOBS Too many people, not enough jobs – preparing for the world without work. Ryan Avent's new book looks at how technology is changing labour markets. We spoke to him about having too many workers, basic income, the end of money, video games and Trump. In economics, as in life, sometimes there can be too much of a good thing. DANCE MOVES: JAMES BROWN'S SINGLE-HANDED INVENTION OF FUNK Dance moves: James Brown's single-handed invention of funk. The music blog 20jazzfunkgreats is charting 20th-century periods of innovation that spurred the evolution of music to dance to. In the latest instalment, James Brown drums his way to a new genre. "The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing," is James Brown's most HOW THE BEATLES GAVE US THE CT SCAN, AND WHAT IT TELLS US Over four years, Hounsfield and his team invented and built the first computed tomography scanner (CT or CAT scanners for short – the extra A stands for 'axial'). In the mid-1960s the Beatles were an economic force, earning $650 a second. The dollar receipts from their overseas tours are credited with saving Harold Wilson's governmentfrom
WHAT CITIES OF THE FUTURE CAN LEARN FROM BRUTALISM The conventional wisdom goes that, for its all fury and fanfare, brutalism was a mere speck in architectural history; a 20-year experiment from 1955 to 1975 that produced some interesting outcomes and some downright weird cityscapes. Modernism is over, our faith in the future is damaged, and architecture today should just respond to what's already there rather than creating brave new worlds CANNED DESIGNS: RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN IN PARIS Canned designs: Rip it up and start again in Paris. Urban planning is full of 'what ifs': designs for future cities that never materialised. Continuing a series, Christopher Beanland looks at Le Corbusier's plans to knock down and rebuild central Paris. If, as some contend, architecture is really just a priapic parlour game, then Le CorbusierTHE LONG + SHORT
The Long and Short is a magazine of innovation, new ideas and how the world is changing, published by Nesta, the UK's innovation foundation WHO CAN YOU TRUST IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD? The PR firm Edelman has been assessing global levels of trust for the past 17 years. Their most recent Trust Barometer reports that: Two-thirds of the countries surveyed are now 'distrusters'. Less than 50 per cent trust in the mainstream institutions of business, government, media and NGOs to THE EXPERIMENTAL CITY The idea of the city as a laboratory is not new. Robert Park, the eminent Chicago sociologist, was the first to suggest it back in the 20s. Chicago was the quintessential 'instant city', even in 19th-century America's blank canvas of possibility. LEARN THE SKUNK WORKS WAY As the story of the lab became famous, ‘skunk works’ has, since the 70s, become the generic term for small, nimble teams operating at a remove from an organisation’s primary business, with a specific remit to innovate, experiment and take risks.BUTTERFLY EFFECTS
So I was underwhelmed by the prospect of visiting cutting edge Japanese art collective teamLab's new installation at Mayfair's Pace gallery.According to Pace, teamLab (note the gnomically lower-case initial) is an "interdisciplinary group of ultra-technologists whose collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, technology, design and the natural world." SUPERHUMAN AFTER ALL The day I finished reading Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, by the Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari, also happened to be the day that Uber finally began its long-awaited phasing out of human employees.The company had just launched a new pilot scheme, in the city of Pittsburgh, in which its customers could be conveyed from A to B by driverless vehicles. MY FIRST CHEMISTRY SET A Merit chemistry set purchased by The Long + Short on eBay last week. There’s often a disparity between the anticipation of getting your hands on the product and the dull reality of using it, and chemistry sets provided children of the 1970s with a particularly irksome example of this. Any chemicals that may have been capable of causing CANNED DESIGNS: RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN IN PARIS If, as some contend, architecture is really just a priapic parlour game, then Le Corbusier's plan Voisin is the equivalent of short-man-in-a-sports-car syndrome.. Le Corbusier was a grouchy Swiss polymath who went on to dominate the design world in the 50s and 60s. NEW MONEY: DO LOCAL CURRENCIES ACTUALLY WORK? The Bristol Pound (£B) entered into circulation in September 2012. By June 2015, 1m £B had been issued, with £B700,000 of that still in circulation. In a population of some 450,000 people, that's the equivalent of each Bristolian carrying less than £B2 in change intheir pocket.
MINING FOR ARGENTINA'S FINANCIAL FUTURE Likewise, Bloomberg has reported that the world's largest mining companies are looking to invest up to $5bn in Argentina, but only if there is an easing of capital restrictions following November's election. All eyes are now on new president Mauricio Macri, who THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN WHO HELPED WIN THE SPACE RACE The forgotten women who helped win the space race. Short. Three black women 'computers' instrumental to the Apollo missions of the 1960s are getting their due thanks in Hidden Figures, an unexpected US box office smash. Matilda Battersby speaks to the author of the book that inspired the film. 18th January 2017. THE HIGH-FUNCTIONING FOOTBALLING BRAIN Torbjörn Vestberg is a psychologist whose work focuses on the brain's executive functions. He is the lead author of the study Executive Functions Predict the Success of Top-Soccer Players, which looked beyond physical abilities and motor coordination to examine the importance of general executive functions to the success of footballplayers.
THE PERSIAN RUG, REIMAGINED Debbie Lawson’s sculptures – from Persian carpets inhabited by natural forms, to a set of chairs that perform the can-can – reappropriate everyday objects in playful, dreamlike ways WHO CAN YOU TRUST IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD? The PR firm Edelman has been assessing global levels of trust for the past 17 years. Their most recent Trust Barometer reports that: Two-thirds of the countries surveyed are now 'distrusters'. Less than 50 per cent trust in the mainstream institutions of business, government, media and NGOs to WHAT CYBERSECURITY CAN LEARN FROM BIOLOGY What cybersecurity can learn from biology. As cyber threats escalate, researchers are using advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning to create artificial immune systems for our digital world. The cybersecurity threat is often described in terms of warfare: firewalls, attack and defence, strengthening our digital borders and LEARN THE SKUNK WORKS WAY Origins. In 1943, celebrated plane designer Clarence L ‘Kelly’ Johnson was co-opted by Lockheed, in Burbank, California, to develop a jet fighter to take on the Luftwaffe. Johnson said it would only be possible if he could run his own team, away from the corporate oversight and by-the-book busybodies who would get in the way. OBSTETRICS FOR BEGINNERS Obstetrics for beginners. While experimenting with 'old springs and other bits of stuff' in his home workshop, Dr Graham Tydeman almost accidentally created 'Desperate Debra' - an invaluable tool to allow doctors to practice caesarean sections. It's my first go at delivering a baby by caesarean section – and the foetal head is impacted CANNED DESIGNS: TWO SIDES OF GLASGOW Optimism. We forget that the 20th century was full of it. Perhaps because the dystopian narrative is more compelling. The picture of crazed lunatics in town planning offices with the gall to knock down half of a city and replace it with tower blocks is the image that recurs; it's the stick used to beat all of the philosophies that wentwith modernism.
INNOVATION HEROES, #3: GEOFFREY PYKE Pyke was first a journalist, having landed a job as a foreign correspondent at the age of 20 after sneaking into wartime Germany under a false passport in 1914. But he became better known in his later capacity as an inventor – particularly for his unorthodox weapons of war. In WWII, Pyke was enlisted by the British War Officeinto Combined
MINING FOR ARGENTINA'S FINANCIAL FUTURE Likewise, Bloomberg has reported that the world's largest mining companies are looking to invest up to $5bn in Argentina, but only if there is an easing of capital restrictions following November's election. All eyes are now on new president Mauricio Macri, who THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN WHO HELPED WIN THE SPACE RACE The forgotten women who helped win the space race. Short. Three black women 'computers' instrumental to the Apollo missions of the 1960s are getting their due thanks in Hidden Figures, an unexpected US box office smash. Matilda Battersby speaks to the author of the book that inspired the film. 18th January 2017. THE HIGH-FUNCTIONING FOOTBALLING BRAIN Torbjörn Vestberg is a psychologist whose work focuses on the brain's executive functions. He is the lead author of the study Executive Functions Predict the Success of Top-Soccer Players, which looked beyond physical abilities and motor coordination to examine the importance of general executive functions to the success of footballplayers.
THE PERSIAN RUG, REIMAGINED Debbie Lawson’s sculptures – from Persian carpets inhabited by natural forms, to a set of chairs that perform the can-can – reappropriate everyday objects in playful, dreamlike ways WHO CAN YOU TRUST IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD? The PR firm Edelman has been assessing global levels of trust for the past 17 years. Their most recent Trust Barometer reports that: Two-thirds of the countries surveyed are now 'distrusters'. Less than 50 per cent trust in the mainstream institutions of business, government, media and NGOs to WHAT CYBERSECURITY CAN LEARN FROM BIOLOGY What cybersecurity can learn from biology. As cyber threats escalate, researchers are using advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning to create artificial immune systems for our digital world. The cybersecurity threat is often described in terms of warfare: firewalls, attack and defence, strengthening our digital borders and LEARN THE SKUNK WORKS WAY Origins. In 1943, celebrated plane designer Clarence L ‘Kelly’ Johnson was co-opted by Lockheed, in Burbank, California, to develop a jet fighter to take on the Luftwaffe. Johnson said it would only be possible if he could run his own team, away from the corporate oversight and by-the-book busybodies who would get in the way. OBSTETRICS FOR BEGINNERS Obstetrics for beginners. While experimenting with 'old springs and other bits of stuff' in his home workshop, Dr Graham Tydeman almost accidentally created 'Desperate Debra' - an invaluable tool to allow doctors to practice caesarean sections. It's my first go at delivering a baby by caesarean section – and the foetal head is impacted CANNED DESIGNS: TWO SIDES OF GLASGOW Optimism. We forget that the 20th century was full of it. Perhaps because the dystopian narrative is more compelling. The picture of crazed lunatics in town planning offices with the gall to knock down half of a city and replace it with tower blocks is the image that recurs; it's the stick used to beat all of the philosophies that wentwith modernism.
INNOVATION HEROES, #3: GEOFFREY PYKE Pyke was first a journalist, having landed a job as a foreign correspondent at the age of 20 after sneaking into wartime Germany under a false passport in 1914. But he became better known in his later capacity as an inventor – particularly for his unorthodox weapons of war. In WWII, Pyke was enlisted by the British War Officeinto Combined
MINING FOR ARGENTINA'S FINANCIAL FUTURE Likewise, Bloomberg has reported that the world's largest mining companies are looking to invest up to $5bn in Argentina, but only if there is an easing of capital restrictions following November's election. All eyes are now on new president Mauricio Macri, whoTHE LONG + SHORT
The Long and Short is a magazine of innovation, new ideas and how the world is changing, published by Nesta, the UK's innovation foundation THE PERSIAN RUG, REIMAGINED Debbie Lawson’s sculptures – from Persian carpets inhabited by natural forms, to a set of chairs that perform the can-can – reappropriate everyday objects in playful, dreamlike ways MAKE YOUR OWN VIRTUAL REALITY BABY There is another generation of technologies that creates layers of reality in even more ambitious ways. Augmented reality specialists Magic Leap are getting hyped in Hollywood as much as in Silicon Valley, by promising to make layers of augmentation over your everyday reality. There are also more intimate consumer technologies that mediate between the reality you perceive and your brain's WHO CAN YOU TRUST IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD? The PR firm Edelman has been assessing global levels of trust for the past 17 years. Their most recent Trust Barometer reports that: Two-thirds of the countries surveyed are now 'distrusters'. Less than 50 per cent trust in the mainstream institutions of business, government, media and NGOs toSYMBOLIC VALUES
If dollar-inspired vertical lines are relatively common, horizontal lines (either single or double) are even more popular. Examples include the Armenian dram (), the Laotian kip (â‚), the Nigerian naira (₦), the Philippine peso (₱), the Russian rouble (), the North Korean won (â‚©), and Japanese yen (Â¥).The parallel lines of the Turkish lira, however, are set rather rakishly at an angleTHE WAR ON CASH
Several months ago I stayed in an offbeat Amsterdam hotel that brewed its own beer but refused to accept cash for it. Instead, they forced me to use the Visa payment card network to get my UK bank to transfer €4 to their Dutch bank via the elaborate international correspondent banking system.. I was there with civil liberties campaigner BenHayes.
SAMPLE THE AMEN BREAK Much of today's music is built around samples of other recordings, in one way or another. Whole genres depend on it. The 'Amen break', a six-second drum solo plundered from an obscure 60s soul record, is one of the most sampled clips in music history: first adopted by the pioneering samplers of 80s hip-hop, before being diced, layered and endlessly manipulated beyond recognition – laying the DANCE MOVES: JAMES BROWN'S SINGLE-HANDED INVENTION OF FUNK Dance moves: James Brown's single-handed invention of funk. The music blog 20jazzfunkgreats is charting 20th-century periods of innovation that spurred the evolution of music to dance to. In the latest instalment, James Brown drums his way to a new genre. "The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing," is James Brown's most INNOVATION HEROES, #3: GEOFFREY PYKE Pyke was first a journalist, having landed a job as a foreign correspondent at the age of 20 after sneaking into wartime Germany under a false passport in 1914. But he became better known in his later capacity as an inventor – particularly for his unorthodox weapons of war. In WWII, Pyke was enlisted by the British War Officeinto Combined
MINING FOR ARGENTINA'S FINANCIAL FUTURE Likewise, Bloomberg has reported that the world's largest mining companies are looking to invest up to $5bn in Argentina, but only if there is an easing of capital restrictions following November's election. All eyes are now on new president Mauricio Macri, whoThe Long and Short
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MIND-WANDERING: THE RISE OF A NEW ANTI-MINDFULNESS MOVEMENT ​Can everyday distraction be a tool for productivity?Long
THE WAR ON CASH
Banks, governments, credit card companies and fintech evangelists all want us to believe our cashless future is inevitable and good. But this isn't a frictionless utopia says Brett Scott, and it's time tofight back​
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IN SEARCH OF THE RENEWABLE CITY Freiburg is forging a renewable future, but would you want to livethere?
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WHO CAN YOU TRUST IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD? ​Our post-truth, post-trust times make us more aware of the value of those concepts. That can be a good thing WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT GOVERNANCE, SOFT POWER AND AMBASSADOGS FROM THE MONOCLE GUIDE TO NATION-BUILDING Review: How to Make a Nation, A Monocle Guide THE FUTURE OF DELICIOUS Insects could be a plentiful food source if only we could get over our aversion to creepy crawliesMore from Society
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DNA testing may not reveal that much about yourself. Its real valuelies elsewhere
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A NEW KIND OF FUNERAL DIRECTOR Meet the people trying to rethink how we mark our deathsLong
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Photos: ​At the Frozen Zoo in San Diego, the cells of thousands of dead animals are preserved in the hope that one day they could help save endangered species More from Life + DeathCITIES
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WHAT CITIES IN THE POST-BREXIT ERA COULD LEARN FROM A 14TH-CENTURYTRADING BLOC
As national unions fracture over the spoils of globalisation, will we see the resurgence of city-state alliances, like the Hanseatic League?NEW YORK CITY FLOPS
Why plans to reinvent a storied Manhattan library failed WHY LONDON IN 1854 WAS THE WORLD'S FIRST SMART CITY Comment: The smart part of smart cities isn't about the dazzling technology, says Eddie Copeland, it's about the people. The story of John Snow shows us the wayMore from Cities
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DANCE MOVES: JAMES BROWN'S SINGLE-HANDED INVENTION OF FUNK In our series on innovation in dance music we look at James Brown'sinvention of funk
THE STAGNATION BLUES How music’s biggest stars got themselves out of deep creative rutsTHE FILTER BUBBLE
Digital technology lets us all be artists but does its guiding hand sap our creativity and lead to cultural homogeneity? More from CreativityGROWTH
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NEW MONEY: DO LOCAL CURRENCIES ACTUALLY WORK? Cities and towns are attempting bold new experiments with alternative currencies they hope will boost regional economies and get people to think differently about moneyLong
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The supposed 'sick man of Asia' might be a model for the westShort
BASIC INCOME IS A TERRIBLE, INEQUITABLE SOLUTION TO TECHNOLOGICALDISRUPTION
Comment: A universal wage will only worsen division. We should redistribute work not wealth, says Emran MianMore from Growth
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From bacteria repellant to flying robots, some of the best new ideas in design and engineering are taking inspiration from biology AI: WHAT ELSE COULD INTELLIGENCE BE? We design machines to think and act in ways that only mirror humans.​ That's too restrictive, limiting what AI might be capable of, says Alex Taylor THE BLOCKCHAIN, EXPLAINED ​It's like a distributed ledger for convoluted analogiesMore from Machines
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THE END OF THE WEB
With the global order fragmenting, cyber-security threats on the rise, and the deluge of information becoming overwhelming, countries are going to break away from the internet in its current form. Get readyfor the splinternet
HOW RADICAL LIFE EXTENSION WILL TRANSFORM HOW WE THINK ABOUTPUNISHMENT
From time-slowing medicine to prison in a pill, a philosopher's thought experiments in future technology force us to rethink the very purpose of punishment ELEVATED, BY TIM MAUGHAN Our new series of short fiction explores the future of collectiveintelligence
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With their clubby nature and grand cultural claims – and for some, health insurance and living quarters – the empires of coworking space are becoming our new corporate parentsShort
HOT DESKS: INSIDE LEGO'S IMAGINATIVE LONDON OFFICE The first in a series on innovative working environments looks at LEGO's new UK hub, where workspaces based on activity​ replace the traditional one-desk-per-person modelLong
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Architects and institutions are turning labs into places for grandstatements
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MYNDLIFT: A STARTUP TO SHARPEN UP Video: Myndlift's app uses neurofeedback to help people focus in smartphone-addled daily life. Founder Aziz Kaadan tells us how it works, and how to succeed as the only Palestinian-founded startup inTel Aviv
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With food wasted in huge quantities, a London-based duo's app helps people give away leftover meals and ingredients rather than throwingthem in the bin
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How free-culture pioneer Aaron Swartz fought for the free exchange of information, and lost MOONSHOTS FOR THE EARTH Can we find technological solutions for climate change? BLACKBOARDS IN THE JUNGLE In the Calais refugee camp, makeshift schools are springing up, catering to the needs of students of all agesMore from Margins
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