Zaha Hadid’s radical geometries
Some time in the mid-1970s a student came to London from Iraq with a vision of how architecture could remake the world. Remarkably – and eventually – she succeeded.
Technology
Inventing the Future: towards the automated economy
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams imagines a ‘post-work economy’ in a world beyond neoliberalism.
A visit to the Kennedy Space Center, Florida
I’ve taken some time to get round to it, but here, finally, are some photos of a memorable trip to the Kennedy Space Center during my holiday in Florida last month.
General Election 2015: a view from the window seat
A view of the 2015 General Election from a plane window, with the blue haze shimmering over the tip of Greenland: I discuss some important issues that aren’t being talked about.
Introducing Sceptical Scot
Over the past few weeks I’ve been glad to help with the development of a new current affairs website, Sceptical Scot, which launched this week. The site hopes to bring more light than heat to the ongoing, intense discussion over the future of Scotland in the wake of last year’s referendum.
10 books for 2015
There will be many others I don’t yet know about. And I’m sure I will not read everything listed below. But here are 10 books to be published in 2015 I’m looking forward to, summarised in alphabetical order.
Engineering utopia
Francis Spufford’s Red Plenty is not just any old history of post-war Soviet cybernetic mathematical modelling. This is an account of centrally administered resource allocation quite unlike any other.