Mark Thompson, former director –general of the BBC, now chief executive of the New York Times Company and writes a compellingly, plodding argument free and less controversial in his “ What’s Gone Wrong With the Language of Politics?” until they reveal hidden flaws or virtues, and can be judged for their political correctness to be…
Samuel Bowles an economist at the Santa Fe Institute, makes the case that appeals made to our self-interest can undercut instinctive moral impulses, and that when these impulses are weakened , crucial institutions work sub-optimally and power of greed triumphs. Fifteen years ago the Boston Fire Department ended its policy of unlimited sick days,…
Dr Gary P Hamel 62, an American management expert, founder of “Strategos”, based in Chicago, one of the world’s most influential business thinkers, has been on the faculty of the London Business School for more than 30 years and is the director of the Management Innovation eXchange. Hamel penned 17 articles for Harvard Business Review and…
Lew Wallace’s 1880 novel has spawned epic films in the past and this new one has ground-breaking excitement and awe-inspiring scenes hardly imaginable unless actually seen. Jack Huston stars as Judah Ben-Hur and Toby Kebbell as Messala, Morgan Freeman brings gravitas, aged wisdom, and a very well-known face, and all the actors have been…
“The Switch” argues Bill Gates and his fellow travellers are mistaken “It won’t take 15 years but the breakthrough that Gates anticipated has already occurred” according to the author Chris Goodall, a British clean-energy expert and investor. Existing technology have brought the world to the solar-power and electricity storage revolution that will over shadow today’s…
Global Positioning Systems has conquered the world, and become an essential global utility free at the point of use, as our reliance on GPS extends in the past couple of decades, goes way beyond the satellite navigation, as it made paper maps obsolete. GPS helps land planes, route mobile calls, anticipate earthquakes, predicts the weather,…
This biography of Oscar Wilde is presented as part of an Anglo-Irish family, an actor with a compelling intergenerational tragedy. Sir William Wilde, his father, a prominent Dublin doctor and folklorist and mother Jane, a political poet “Speranza”. Sir William, a Victorian polymath, expert in aural medicine, and who was appointed Queen Victoria’s doctor…
Timothy Yu, 25-year-old, founder of Hong Kong based company Snapask, a mobile app that enables students to ask questions with a snapshot and then matches them with a tutor within seconds to have a one-to-one instant tutoring session. Launched last year Snapask is now serving over 100, 000 students in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore…
Defend your right to free speech, should fears over security and social cohesion curtail it. Every person with an internet connection now has instant access to diversified opinions and crucially a platform to air their own opinions. In Free Speech, Timothy Garton Ash, scholar, and a journalist, direct us how to think freely and to…
If you believe the hype in this book you can re-create Rembrandts, write Shakespeare-like sonnets, have faith in an algorithm that can predict chart- toppers and in another that can work out whether a novel will “hit” the bestseller lists. Google’s artificial intelligence system has also recently had a go at writing poetry with questionable…