Friday, July 31, 2009
Reader on human dimensions of innovation
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Joel Mopkyr downloads
some excellent material here!
e.g.
King Kong and Cold Fusion:Counterfactual analysis and the History of Technology" March 1999,rev. version, July. 2000.
"Technological Selection, Information, and Changing Household Behavior, 1850-1914"
Monday, July 27, 2009
OUTSIGHTS website - publications
lots of other material on other pages of this site.
for example:@
By looking at the broader future challenges in society and the
future of technology, Outsights worked with Sir James Crosby and the
Treasury team on his independent review, "Challenges and opportunities
in identity assurance". This review looked at how to maximise the
economic and social advantage to the UK from having the most effective
ID assurance systems and infrastructure.
UK Government Futures
A
wide survey of futures thinking in Government with projects completed
by Outsights using the Sigma Scan (www.sigmascan.org) and scenario
thinking.
Challenges and Opportunities in Identity Assurance (HM Treasury 2008)
A
review looked at how to maximise the economic and social advantage to
the UK from having the most effective ID assurance systems and
infrastructure.
