Car Move on! Stalled sales signal that we’re past peak car. 2018 worldwide car sales 94.2m, down 1m on 2017. Youngsters are turning away from the killer transportation app of the 20th c. UK: driving tests per year by 17 year-olds are down 28% in 10 years. USA: only 26% of 16 year olds got…
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Unmanned By weaponising unmanned aerial vehicles, pilots can endanger lives without risking their own. Consider & counter the downsides of new tech early. Drones must prove they can fly safely beyond line of sight, over human populations and at night. Defences? Licences, nets, lasers, projectiles, electromagnetic pulses, jamming radio signals & suicide drones Guessed the…
Licence Members of an occupation love licences as they keep others out. 1 in 5 UK workers – twice as many as 15 years ago – now needs a permit from government to do their job, including security guards, art therapists, social workers. Are they any better than they were? Work life is tied up…
Unregulated The only market that’s unregulated is the art business. Buying & selling paintings is one way to clean dirty money Guessed the Word? Series 22 (2/8) [pic: daniel van den berg]