Norman Lewis
Dr Norman Lewis, writer, speaker and consultant on innovation and technology, was most recently a Director at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, where he set up and led their crowdsourced innovation service. Prior to this he was the Director of Technology Research at Orange. Follow him on Twitter @Norm_Lewis
- Forget about QAnon and other conspiracy theorists. The EU now peddles Covid-19 vaccine misinformation to undermine Brexit UK
Brussels is playing with people’s lives by trying to undermine Brexit Britain ahead of vaccinating its vulnerable against Covid. It’s a cynical and deliberate ploy aimed at protecting ‘Project EU’ instead of shielding citizens. - Proposed UK law allowing deplatformed speakers to sue universities is turning free speech from universal right to legal privilegePlans unveiled by UK education secretary Gavin Williamson that no-platformed speakers could get compensation from universities should be opposed by anyone seriously in favour of defending free speech.
- In the post-pandemic era, how shall we live with these smart new robots that claim they’re ‘a person who is not a human’?A Hong Kong-based manufacturer plans to flood the world with thousands of humanoid robots this year, but the idea they can keep people safe and can help overcome social isolation, vulnerability and fear, is a misanthropic fraud.
- The silencing of President Trump by Big Tech is moral cowardice, and all about the opportunistic pursuit of power and profitSilicon Valley’s billionaire social media titans have no principles – their actions are all about protecting and nurturing their rapacious businesses & destroying competitors. We’re in the grip of monopolistic authoritarians.
- The Greta Reset: Welcome to the UK 2030 - the no petrol, no transport, no freedom of movement Net Zero futureBringing forward a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel-engined cars and vans from 2040 to 2030 by the UK government is an authoritarian exhaust-pipe-dream of a ‘solution’ to climate change.
- An elite-led ‘Great Reset’ post-Covid? No, what we need first is to get rid of the globalist approach that got us into this messThe WEF’s vision for the future isn’t a conspiracy, but a disingenuous, dishonest manifesto from an unelected ruling class. The virus has vindicated the national state and the need for ordinary people to be part of the solutions.
- Experts get US election predictions wrong again, but it’s no surprise; the culture war is so toxic dissent has become demonisedThe rise of the ‘shy’ US voter – people who are afraid to express their true opinions for fear of retribution – shows that it is not just pollsters, pundits, and political experts who inevitably suffer, but US democracy itself.
- The death knell of science is being sounded, not by politicians but by partisan scientists themselvesA campaign to elect scientists to political office in the US might have won early victories, but it’s dangerously deluded because it depoliticizes politics while politicizing science – which utterly undermines its authority.
- Use of AI & digital ads in politics shows it’s a snake oil world of deception, manipulation & contempt for ordinary peopleThere is a worrying assumption that cuts across the political divide in 2020 – that the electorate are fickle, easily misled and manipulable. We are simply reduced to being data points that can be harvested and maneuvered at will.
- Are dark forces really to blame? So many people believing in conspiracy theories like QAnon reveals a sad truth about the WestWe need to talk about these lunatic claims that see sinister hands at work everywhere. Not because they're true, but because of what they demonstrate about our society and the quest for meaning in the age of Covid.
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