I spent a wonderful evening yesterday chatting about a new book that my former colleagues at Forum for the Future have put together called About Time. Loads of interesting links to the project I’m working on next year in London in partnership with the Long Now Foundation (who, incidentally, have just unveiled the next version of the 10,000 year clock). As we were talking about [...]
A Sunday in Harrow
I spent my Sunday at the UK’s fist Open Budget in Harrow in north west London seeing how things worked. Polly Billington of the BBC’s Today programme was there too and put together this really nice package about what happened. I wish Matthew Parris (who speaks in the discussion after the package) had come along. His muddled garble of rentaquotes showed no understanding of what [...]
BedZED Blog – October 2005
BedZED is just over three years old now. Clematis, rose and golden hop plants are beginning to hide some of the metal and brick and making the place look a bit more lived in. It’s aging well I think and I still get a kick out of the architecture – especially on perfect blue-skied days like today. The low sun gives the whole place a [...]
Them, us and Segways
One of the more surreal moments of Labour Party conference last week was emerging from security into the area in front of the Brighton Centre to see three people going round in circles on Segways. For those of you not familiar with ‘ginger’, it’s a two wheel gyroscope enabled human transporter. I once had a go on one at Stanford University and didn’t fall off [...]