Antoine RJ Wright

… James says, explaining that the country will need an extra 640,000 engineers by 2020. This is why, in September, Dyson will add a real university to the current Malmesbury campus. Thirty undergraduates will join The Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology, where they’ll become both engineering students and employees.

‘We only do things where we think we can make a difference and that makes it a special place to work,’ Courtney says, describing how he and his team think up the futuristic products that will one day be in the hands of over 67 million people worldwide. ‘We only work on things where we can solve a problem or a frustration,’ Courtney continues. ‘We don’t want to trample across everything like other companies and make products for the sake of it. In this way I wouldn’t say Dyson is money driven; it’s a sort of happy outcome from doing something well.

In addition to the mounting friction they bring to our daily lives, rituals of authentication increasingly leave us vulnerable to malice. As long as our identity is something we must log in through the Internet to access, our data will live somewhere among millions of other people’s data in a centralized “cloud” or “treasure trove.” These repositories of sensitive user information are targets for hackers. The more services we interact with, the more clouds our credentials necessarily live in. Our individual attack vectors multiply with each new account we create, exposing us further to the r…

In 1987, Nobel-Prize winning Economist Robert Solow famously quipped, “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” This puzzling truth became known as the Productivity Paradox, the perceived “discrepancy between measures of investment in information technology and measures of output at the national level.”

Edison’s invention philosophy prioritized systems over individual components. The way he saw it, the difference between proving the practicability of a system and introducing it for general use was the plan for infrastructure. Edison didn’t stop at the lightbulb; he understood he would have to invent the ecosystem for it to i…

The significance of micromobility is more than just human-powered modes gaining a motor. Micromobility puts a figurative motor on the fundamental liberty of movement itself — raising, leveling and democratizing access to economic and social opportunity. It allows everyone, regardless of ability or disability, age, energy or state of health, the right to seek and obtain (for relatively little expense) sustained and inexhaustible supplies of one strong human power for their personal mobility. That amount of liberty was previously unavailable at any price — except the strenuous efforts of th…

…demonstrates that the greatest value to be mined in personal mobility is in supplying motive power. As people increasingly patronize these businesses and enjoy effortless personal mobility for the first time, awareness is spreading about how little space is actually set aside for the safe exercise of it. That is about to change.

In its most significant context, micromobility is the exercise of a legal right to use a proxy motor (a motor, not coincidentally, with about the power of one able-bodied human) in furtherance of one’s liberty of movement, in the same places people move under their own power. It is the result of practical, accidental or deliberate policy choices to exempt certain low-speed transportation modes from regulation as motor vehicles.

Alexandra Levit: Be proactive. Instead of insisting on a laser focus on your immediate business priorities tomorrow, keep your head up, your eyes open, and your mind curious. Take responsibility for identifying disruptions in your industry and training your workforce to cope with them. Remember that the future doesn’t just happen — we shape it every day.

Richard Watson: There’s a shift toward working on multiple projects and working for multiple employers — free agent, part-time working from anywhere. However, while this might appeal for a while, and to younger people, I think this creates uncertainty and anxiety, and we might see a shift back toward more stable and permanent employment. For one thing, how do you create a corporate culture if nobody stays for very long and half the peo…