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 alBreward | Feb 23, 2018 | General Comments
The group behind the imagine2027 initiative is The Cambridge Commons, which exists to raise awareness of, and reduce, inequality in Cambridge. The Commons has just launched its new Civic Vision – High Level Aspirations for Government and Business. The aim of...
by imagineer | Feb 20, 2018 | General Comments
George Monbiot – a well-known weekly columnist for The Guardian and writer of many books – is joining us this Thursday 22nd February. His books and columns have discussed how capitalism destroys the planet, and why we need a new system...
by imagineer | Feb 2, 2018 | General Comments
Guy Standing is famous as the author of The Precariat, but he is also the world’s foremost advocate for universal basic income, the writer of aprodigious canon of economic and social books and the leader of a successful trial of basic income in poor villages in India...
