Quotes by Geoff Mulgan - Page 2

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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Digital
Skills
Teenager
Tools
Writing
Confident
Consume
Teenagers
Web
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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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Boring
Computing
Covering
Discipline
Fun
Programming
Topics
Database
Rigorous
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States which used to communicate directly to their citizens now do so through the media, where their messages are reshaped by the logics of news values and commentary.
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Citizens
Commentary
Communicate
Messages
Directly
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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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Children
Motivation
Real
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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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Attachment
Choices
Climate
Climate Change
Uncomfortable
Barrier
Dealing
Habits
Ignore
Park
Shift
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Governments should want and even crave the best possible scientific advice. With reliable knowledge come better decisions, fewer mistakes and more results achieved for each pound spent.
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Advice
Crave
Fewer
Achieved
Governments
Pound
Reliable
Scientific
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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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Capitalist
Capitalist Economy
Party
Political
Political Parties
Activists
Movements
Parties
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Young people who were relaxed about posting every detail of their life on Facebook become a lot less relaxed when they realise just how transparent their life has become to future employers.
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Details
Employers
People
Relaxed
Transparent
Life Future People
Detail
Facebook
Posting
Realise
Young People
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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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Government
Billions
Children
Crime
Cutting
Hardware
Innovation
Systematic
Benefit
Invest
Governments
Just As Much
Such Things
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Local government in England is simply too big. Our lowest tier serves an average population of 118,500, while in the U.S. and across continental Europe the figures are more like several thousand.
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Average
Continental
Figures
Local Government
Lowest
Population
Thousand
Government More Big
Local
Several
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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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Data
Digital
Fiction
Notion
Reality
Streams
Bubbling
Networks
Widespread
Rapidly
Social Networks
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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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Available
Capitalism
Cards
Century
Credit
Credit Card
Indulgence
Narcissism
Self
Self Love
Worth It
Slogan
Banal
Card
Early
Flick
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The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate in, including media, non-governmental organisations and the public.
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Government
Including
Media
Responsibility
Also
Part
Public
Good Government
Governments
Lies
Operate
Organisations
System
Themselves
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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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Adviser
Clever
Disappointed
Liable
Thick
Thinking
Would Be
Listened
Solved
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Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical memories of conflict, small events are more likely to inflame passions.
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Conflict
Identity
Memories
Resources
Scarce
Caused
Inflame
Passions
Simple Way
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Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.
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Technology
Good Food
Imaginative
Makers
People
Providers
Rewards
Simple
Valuable
Best Good Food
Creators
Technologies
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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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Jobs
Important
Preparing
Rewards
School
Teenager
Politicians
Hardly
Industries
Raise
Schools
Signs
Status
Teenagers
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Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money, their data, their time and their attention are routinely taken in fundamentally asymmetrical exchanges.
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Data
Everyday
Everyday Life
Mainstream
Software
Life Time Money
Exchanges
Fundamentally
Sectors
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The central position of finance capital is going to come to an end, and it's going to steadily move to the sides, the margins of our society, transformed from being a master into a servant, a servant to the productive economy and of human needs.
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Inspiration
Motivation
Moving
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Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism.
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Compass
Favour
Intrigue
Moral Compass
Plenty
Biases
Contain
Governments
Steely
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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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America
Growth
Years
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With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are.
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Able
Identity
People
Self
Social
Act
Confident
Less
Complex
Feed
Networks
Often
Depend
Fractured
Identities
Sense
Social Networks
Subject
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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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Heart
Mean
Taken
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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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Design
Collaboration
Experiments
Ideas
Innovation
Interest
Involving
New Ways
Social
Thrive
Users
Designing
Hence
Rather
Services
Ways
Web
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It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the U.S., 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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Andrew
Carnegie
Comment
Disgrace
Inequality
Irony
Philanthropist
Taken
Wealthy
Die
Quite
Few
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The end of life is likely to be an important focus for innovation. Most people die in hospitals, tied up with tubes and with their bodies pumped full of drugs. Yet most would rather die at home and with more control over the timing and manner of their death.
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Hospitals
Innovation
Tied
Tubes
Life Death Home
Bodies
Manner
Pumped
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The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen.
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Technology
Complacency
Connected
Empowerment
Interactive
Make It Happen
Passive
People
Users
Designed
Mixed
Smug
Technologies
Too Many People
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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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Government
Technology
Cities
Investment
Matched
Silicon
Tradition
Valley
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As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.
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Academia
Alcohol
Crops
Dissecting
Including
Nuclear
Proliferation
Reform
Servant
Strategy
Brought
Charge
Civil
Civil Servant
Complex
Gm
Schools
Solving
Unit
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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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Agree
Commitment
Display
Integrity
People
Return
Yearning
Elementary
For Example
Greatly
Virtues
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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.
Geoff Mulgan / Writer
War
Active
Committed
Fascists
Groups
Headquarters
Meetings
Republic
Second World War
Supporter
World
French
Cosmetic
Founder
Member
Overthrow
Third
World War
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The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the police had, and, just possibly, excused by the fact that a terrorist action in Britain linked to British Muslims would have been hugely damaging.
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Action
Britain
Facts
Linked
Police
Poor
September
September 11
Terrorist
Arrest
Attacks
Damaging
Excused
Explained
Fact
Hugely
Muslims
Possibly
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Thousands
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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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Technology
Best Work
Confinement
Fields
Ideas
People
Extreme
Best Work Technology
Composers
Networks
Link
Musicians
Uses
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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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Critical
Critical Mass
Engaging
Interesting
Mass
Messages
Moving
Moving Away
One Way
People
Questioning
Networks
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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.
Geoff Mulgan / Writer
Music
Age
Science
Ageing
Dementia
Drug
Evidence
Factors
Most Powerful
Play
Powerful
Visitors
Come
Work Age Music
Advance
Arrest
Determining
Play Music
Slow
Regular
Rightly
Searching
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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.
Geoff Mulgan / Writer
Learning
Zero
Government
Despite
Distance
Fair Trade
Farming
Growing
Housing
Innovation
Justice
Reduction
Social
Tackling
Today
Trade
Urban
Waste
Facing
Fair
Governments
Pressing
Problems
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Europe has shown how government can be organised in a network. Its institutions both compete and co-operate and include a directly elected parliament that does not appoint the executive, independent judiciaries and a complex set of relationships between the Commission, the Council of Ministers and the Parliament.
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Council
Ministers
Organised
Parliament
Appoint
Commission
Compete
Complex
Directly
Elected
Executive
Include
Network
Shown
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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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Bigger
Bigger Picture
Chasing
Civil Society
Contracts
Funding
Hands
Juggling
Looks
Mouths
Perpetual
Prepared
Short Term
Picture
Civil
Crises
Hand
Minor
Mouth
Organisations
Rarely
Treadmill
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For most of human history, the main goal of states has been to conquer land and to achieve glory for their rulers, usually at others' expense. Then in recent decades it was all about GDP. It's only in very recent history that rulers have been willing to commit themselves to helping their citizens live happier lives.
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Citizens
Commit
Conquer
Decades
Gdp
Glory
Helping
Human History
Rulers
Expense
Happier
Recent
Recent History
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Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge.
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Claims
Consistent
Cosmos
Justice
People
Welfare
Years
Deliver
Drawn
Duties
Originally
Promised
Surprisingly
Threats
Truths
Uphold
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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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Environmental
Clear
Climate Change
Environment
Generations
Labour
Nervous
Thinking
Timidity
Too Much
Upset
Change Future Business
Basically
Case
Future Generations
Requiring
Suspect
Upsetting
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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.
Geoff Mulgan / Writer
Assembly
Children
Civil Liberties
Community
Constraints
Everyday
Exemplary
Helping
Party
Regulation
Rising
Standards
Civil
Concerns
Liberties
Parties
Policies
Restrictions
Tide
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