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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
All innovation is about letting go, saying goodbye to things to create space for the new.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far it soon becomes poisonous.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes in creative ways.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
A tablet replacing an exercise book is not innovation, it's just a different way to make notes.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
Before the Second World War, L'Oreal in France was an active supporter of the French fascists. The cosmetic group's founder Eugene Schueller was an active member of the 'Cagoule' group, committed to the violent overthrow of the Third Republic, and hosted meetings at Oreal headquarters.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of cynicism.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
By international standards, many of the U.K.'s policies for civil society are exemplary. However, there are concerns about constraints on civil liberties - particularly restrictions on free assembly and about the rising tide of everyday regulation has seriously impeded community activity - from organising street parties to helping children.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
Courses can, and should, incorporate the excitement and fun of programming games, apps or even real digital devices.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn't come at the push of a button.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
Even many of the teenagers who feel confident on navigating the web simply don't have the skills needed to 'write and create' digital tools, not simply consume them.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
Everyone knows of great projects that were too dependent on a charismatic individual, or simply too expensive to be replicated.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
I didn't much like being in Parliament physically. I found it a bit depressing. It's very dark and heavy. I like being out and about.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
I'm not saying [economic] growth is wrong, but throughout the years of growth, many things didn't get better. ... If you look at America, the proportion of Americans with no one to talk to about important things went up from a tenth to a quarter.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties; in a way, that there are no longer anti-democratic movements, activists, and parties.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the US, quite a few of the ultra-rich have taken to heart the 19th century industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's comment that it's a disgrace to die wealthy.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
Many of the greatest composers and musicians do their best work in extreme confinement but we are seeing it in other fields - uses of technology to link people together in networks to solve problems and almost certainly we'll get better ideas than we would from them just doing it on their own.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
One of the lessons of history is that even the deepest crises can be moments of opportunity. They bring ideas from the margins into the mainstream.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you work, whether you play music, whether you have regular visitors.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest in new ways of using the web to 'crowdsource' ideas, or the many experiments involving users in designing services.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to mouth, juggling short-term funding and perpetual minor crises. Even the bigger ones rarely get much time to stand back and look at the bigger picture. Many are on a treadmill chasing after contracts and new funding.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
Spreading an idea is hard work.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
Systems governed by only one set of rules are more vulnerable than those with variety.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real - all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in technology start-ups, just as the U.K. government has never matched the vast investment made by the U.S. government.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
The really interesting moment will be when you have a critical mass of people engaging through the networks, more than through the press and TV. When that happens, the culture of politics has to change, moving away from controlled one-way messages towards a political culture that is more questioning.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
There are hardly any apprenticeships in care; hardly any schools preparing teenagers for jobs in care; and few signs that politicians know what to do to raise the status and rewards for what will soon be one of our most important industries.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of values. We greatly respect businessmen, for example, if they display those virtues, even if we don't necessarily agree with the people.
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By AnonymGeoff Mulgan
There is incredible potential for digital technology in and beyond the classroom, but it is vital to rethink how learning is organised if we are to reap the rewards.
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