Infrastructure Fast, robust wifi essential for global competitiveness, but UK is 5th for broadband availability, and 17 out of 19 for updated tech. £56bn high-speed HS2 rail from London to Birmingham/ Manchester won’t deliver double the economic/ social benefits of £25bn UK-wide full-fibre broadband. The best investments may be invisible Guessed the word? Series 3…
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Ig Nobel Prize for achievements that make people laugh, then think. 2009 Economics Ig won by 4 Icelandic banks, for showing how tiny banks can rapidly become huge banks, & vice versa – & similar for an entire national economy What’s the Word? Series 2 (8/10) [photo: Alexas_Fotos]
r Internet of Things (IoT) started in 1982, when Carnegie-Mellon students put sensors in a vending machine connected to the internet, to avoid having to walk there to know when freshly-loaded drinks were cold enough. Laziness can be productive What’s the Word? Series 1 (3/7) [photo: Clint Adair]