Tag: People

  • You are not a gadget – Jaron Lanier

    I’m reading Jaron Lanier’s You are not a gadget, at the moment. Lanier is one of the original geeky gurus of the net. He’s taking stock and having a think about where we are going in this book, which he calls a manifesto. I haven’t got to the manifesto part yet, but his musings are…

  • Around the world by Zeppelin

    In case you missed it, you can still see Around the World by Zeppelin a fabulous film about a 21 day round the world voyage by the Graf Zeppelin in 1929. The story is told from the viewpoint of the young journalist Lady Grace Drummond-Hay, reporting for the Hearst media empire. The film is based…

  • Should the National Curriculum be scrapped?

    There was an interesting article on the today programme this morning about the National Curriculum, which you can listen to by clicking here. Master of Wellington College, Anthony Seldon is proposing the idea that the National Curriculum needs rethinking at a debate on education at the British Library tonight. Peter Hyman, a former strategist for…