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    The Rise and Fall of Joi Ito: Jeffrey Epstein’s tech networker who seduced Silicon Valley

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    15 September 2019

    Have you ever sat through a “thought leadership” seminar that was nothing but platitudes? … Read More

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  • Freeman Dyson on climate change, interstellar travel, fusion, and virtue-signalling
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    Freeman Dyson on climate change, interstellar travel, fusion, and virtue-signalling

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    11 October 2015

    The life of physicist Freeman Dyson spans advising bomber command in World War II; working at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, New Jersey, as a contemporary of Einstein; and providing advice to the US government on a wide range of scientific and technical issues.

    He is a rare public intellectual who writes prolifically for a wide audience. He has also campaigned against nuclear weapons proliferation.

    At America’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Dyson was looking at the climate … Read More

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  • Special Report: Inside the Government Digital Service –  the Happiest Place on Earth
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    Special Report: Inside the Government Digital Service – the Happiest Place on Earth

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    28 April 2015

    Last year, the UK’s Cabinet Office asked an external management consultancy to examine staff morale and high turnover at the Government Digital Service. After interviewing more than 100 civil servants, its scathing confidential analysis described an organisation beset by low morale and run by a “cabal” management of old friends, who bypassed talent in favour of recruiting former associates – while Whitehall viewed GDS as “smug” and “arrogant”.

    … Read More

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  • On Nudge
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    On Nudge

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    6 February 2014

    No 10’s controversial “nudge unit” has been spun out into a company – but it hasn’t fallen far from the nest. The 16-strong Behavioural Insights Team (as it’s known) will become a private entity and will be able to tap into cash originally set aside for fledgling inventors.

    It will then sell its services back to the government and, if all goes well, other governments and organisations.

    Former quango now-charity Nesta will provide £1.9m funding for the Unit’s experiments, and … Read More

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  • Stephen Fry rewrites computer history again
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    Stephen Fry rewrites computer history again

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    28 January 2014


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  • Habeas Data, or Why any Silicon Valley ‘bill of rights’ will guarantee you never have any
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    Habeas Data, or Why any Silicon Valley ‘bill of rights’ will guarantee you never have any

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    31 December 2013

    Widespread ridicule has greeted the announcement that eight giant technology companies led by Google and including Facebook and LinkedIn were going to save us from the NSA.

    The ridicule is thoroughly justified, for trusting giant corporations – whose business models rely on selling your identity to advertisers – to safeguard your privacy is like hiring a kleptomaniac to guard the sweet shop.

    Thirty years after the Khmer Rouge declared war on “the Garden of the individual”, Silicon Valley was lauding … Read More

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