A selection of articles I’ve written over the past few years:

2006

• Small Talk - Green Futures feature on scenarios for nanotechnology in 2015.
• Net Gains - a review for the FT of Yochai Benkler’s book, The Wealth of Networks.
• The Man Who Wants to Live Forever - A profile of Cambridge biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey published by openDemocracy and taken from the Better Humans? collection (co-authored with James Wilsdon).

2004

• Always Connect - An article written for the Guardian’s Spark supplement about applications of the open source model beyond computer software.
• Party Poopers - cover story of the FT Magazine, written with Tom Bentley on the implications of the decline of mainstream political parties in western democracies.
• The Rise of Network Campaigning - An essay written for the Network Logic collection on the use of networks by civil society campaigners. It’s mainly based on my experience of the Jubilee 2000 campaign to cancel the unpayable debts of the world’s poorest nations.

2003

• Communication in the 21st Century - a talk I gave at the RSA in London alongside Will Davies (then of the Work Foundation).

2002

• Open Policy - An essay I wrote while at Forum for the Future, which argues that in the face of increasing interconnectedness, companies and governments shouldn’t hide their policy making processes away but should open them up, allowing outsiders to contribute using a model similar to that used by open source software developers.
• Big, big plans for very small things - An article for Green Futures magazine on the importance of putting social and environmental concerns at the heart of nanotechnology research and development.
• In Defence of Apathy (or the dawn of the active society) - An essay that won IPPR’s James Cornford essay prize. It argues that as the world’s problems become more obvious and technology allows more peer-to-peer communication and collaboration, we’ll see more and more ‘activism’ and less and less ‘passive-ism’.