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
- People have been so spooked by the state-sanctioned Project Fear that they believe TENS OF MILLIONS have died from Covid-19
The perception of the risks of the Covid-19 crisis are now so exaggerated that it demonstrates how fear has become the only true enduring reality of the pandemic. - ‘Scientists’ said Brits won’t stay home because of ‘behaviour fatigue’, and pushed Project Fear. Now most don’t want to go to workThe behavioural science-informed insight that citizens would suffer ‘fatigue’ and thus would not comply with government-imposed lockdowns unless ‘nudged’ to do so has proven that behavioural science is as scientific as astrology.
- It’s official & a damning indictment, the Covid-19 lockdown has made the rich vastly richer and poor vastly poorerNew figures from the Bank of England show what many of us predicted – that the effect of shutting down the economy would increase wealth inequality and hit the least well-off hardest. And it's just going to get worse.
- UK politicians who urged us all to ‘follow the science’ now turn on the scientists for being WRONG. But will the people buy it?Furious finger-pointing has broken out in the UK as experts and politicians try to distance themselves from the consequences of the government’s calamitous Covid-19 lockdown strategy.
- Why don’t our governments trust us when it comes to this virus? We need a vaccine against state authoritarianismThe lack of confidence that our political leaders have in us to act sensibly over Covid-19 is chilling and misguided – it’s put our economies in grave peril and is endangering our futures.
- UK elites’ Covid-19 PROJECT FEAR has worked, as NEARLY ALL Britons DEMAND lockdown continues despite falling casesHaving provoked extensive existential angst and worry through a Covid-19 Project Fear, governments are now faced with societies that are petrified of normal life and are pushing back against any easing of the lockdown.
- Rebuild a better world? First we need to accept that the West’s economies were utterly broken before Covid-19 came alongThe pandemic lockdowns are creating a global depression that’s likely to be the worst in history. We can’t go back to what passed for normal; we need to be courageous and take radical measures to reboot our economies.
- AI healthcare shouldn’t get more trust than self-driving car; it’s useful amid pandemic emergency, but speed is not always goodAI is now being used to triage Covid-19 patients. But we must bear in mind that the pandemic is no reason to self-isolate our critical faculties and accept AI in healthcare as the future without question.
- The speed at which the British media became McCarthyite authoritarians has been almost as fast as the spread of Covid-19While many pontificate about what Covid-19 might mean for the future – of work, travel etc – little attention has been paid to the future of British media, which has become the cheerleader and bullhorn of state authoritarianism.
- As scientists break down borders to fight Covid-19, nationalist leaders build them back upTwo opposing dynamics have emerged in the global race for a coronavirus vaccine: unprecedented scientific collaboration on the one hand; and a worrying strengthening of national autarky on the other.
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