The morning’s session is entitled “Small Miracle” and promises a series of talks about innovation on microscale. We lead off with Ethel, an innovative string… Read More »Alan Russell – Regrowing by Thinking Small
My goal was to arrive at TED for Al Gore’s speech at 7pm – I beat the traffic and made it for the Children of… Read More »Al Gore. Quieter than the Children of Uganda
The Washington Post has published a list of 236 keywords considered sensitive by Chinese censors. 18 of these words are obscenities – the rest are… Read More »The words China doesn’t want to hear
I’m writing from the front of a NWA plane, a place that’s roughly as fammiliar to me these days as my living room should be.… Read More »Blogging the TED conference
I’m reading Franklin Foer’s excellent “How Soccer Explains the World”, and I’m more cognisant than usual of a good sports metaphor. The UK’s chief election… Read More »The pitch is “not level”
My colleagues Rebecca MacKinnon and John Palfrey have an excellent op-ed in this week’s Newsweek International, on the role of US internet companies in China.… Read More »It’s too late to prevent “The Internets”