by Mark Carrigan | Mar 24, 2018 | General Comments
Hermann Hauser – a Doctor of Physics, Honorary Doctor of three universities, Fellow of the Royal Society, and honorary KBE amongst other accolades – must be one of our best known entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. Associated with the ‘Cambridge Phenomenon’ from...
by Mark Carrigan | Mar 12, 2018 | General Comments
Viewing the future through the prism of wry and incisive humour, and likely to create one of our liveliest and most off-beat presentations yet is Ava Vidal on 22 March. A mother at 18 and prison officer for five years, Ava has become a regular presence on television...
by Mark Carrigan | Feb 26, 2018 | General Comments
George Monbiot’s arrival to talk in Cambridge Commons’ Imagine2027 programme on 22 February aroused the most intense media and public interest of all the lectures so far. There is a marked contrast with his pretty un-starlike demeanour, mixing as he does a bottom-up...
by Mark Carrigan | Nov 26, 2017 | General Comments
“Social media has had such a bad press in the last few years. It’s been blamed for fake news, extremism, radicalisation and terrorism.” On the 16th of November Helen Margetts, Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, presented Imagine2027’s fourth talk, exploring...
