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Thoughts on digital experience, learning, arts and other favourite things from the people at Unthinkable and our friends

Digital Natives, Immigrants, Pioneers and Citizens

Digital Natives, Immigrants, Pioneers and Citizens

The term ‘digital native’ is widely used to describe members of the generations that have grown up using digital technology. Its less…
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Matthew Shorter
Dec 13, 2019
Designing digital democracy

Designing digital democracy

The two services that, more than any other, have come to stand for the dysfunctional relationship between digital technology and politics…
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Matthew Shorter
Jul 30, 2018
Discovering ourselves online

Discovering ourselves online

As an over-forty, it’s a cliché that I’m an immigrant rather than a native to the land of digital. (Having grown up in the age of the…
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Matthew Shorter
Sep 27, 2017
Building Webs of Discovery

Building Webs of Discovery

Context: The folk at Unthinkable Digital asked me to write something about the dream & creative potential of linked open data and the Web…
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Paul Rissen
Aug 4, 2017
Become the friendly librarian of your content

Become the friendly librarian of your content

One of the analogies I reach for when talking about content discovery on the internet is something that happened when I was a child. I…
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Richard Leeming
Jun 30, 2017
Online learning discovery

Online learning discovery

In 2011, ‘discovery’ would have been the right word for MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). That year, Sebastian Thrun filmed himself in…
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Chris Fellingham
Jun 2, 2017
The self and the machine

The self and the machine

I recently read Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time, and was captivated by the freshness with which the book deals with the…
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Matthew Shorter
May 5, 2017
A Lazy Guru’s Guide to Flow in a Digital World

A Lazy Guru’s Guide to Flow in a Digital World

When I was in my twenties I visited Rome for the first time. I was enraptured by how easy and spontaneous the social life of the average…
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Laurence Shorter
Feb 2, 2017

Digital — what’s it done for vegetarian teens?

How has digital influenced teenagers’ eating habits and what resources are out there?
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Emma Hutson
Nov 4, 2016
Learning how to be surprised

Learning how to be surprised

Over the past couple of months, we at Unthinkable have been surfacing a few of our reflections on learning, and in particular the ways in…
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Matthew Shorter
Sep 20, 2016
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