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
- The West’s moral cowardice over animal rights has helped China to become a world leader in biotech research
The global shortage of monkeys resulting from the unexpected demand caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the inconvenient truth that the world is now more dependent on China than ever before. - The floods in Germany show how fear-mongering about climate change is preventing us from combating actual disastersThe Rhineland floods were not nature’s revenge on humanity for ravaging the planet. This was a man-made failure, a seeming inability to act in the face of knowledge that had detected the catastrophe a week before it happened.
- New book ‘An Ugly Truth’ propagates the widespread prejudice that Facebook users are gullible children in need of protectionA new book on Facebook’s rise is intended to make readers outraged. But what is truly ugly is the authors’ technologically determinist misanthropy which sees people as manipulatable infants, preyed upon by a rapacious monopoly.
- Social media is not as big a threat to humanity as the self-selected experts who think they have a right to police itA new report on the urgent need to study how collective behaviour is being influenced by social media is a thinly disguised elitist demand for mass deference to self-selected experts. This represents a major threat to democracy.
- The switched-on, censorious billionaires of Silicon Valley are now the greatest threat to free speech and the pursuit of truthFacebook’s ‘ministry of truth’ is now threatening legitimate scientists with bans for calling out the lies of anti-genetically modified food activists. It is an extremely worrying development.
- Facebook’s autocratic Trump ban has tightened big business’s grip on democracy & freedom of expression. We should shudder in fearThe decision by Facebook to uphold Donald Trump’s suspension for two years, and the promise the platform will no longer treat content from politicians any differently, shows that it has elected itself the referee in US democracy.
- Cancelling Isaac Newton as part of a ‘decolonisation’ drive is part of a woke-driven purge in education that must be resistedA British university erasing the achievements of one of the world’s greatest scientists because he may have profited from ‘colonial-era activity’ is madness, and cancels the human spirit behind scientific discovery.
- The battle over the next global emergency, the environment, will make Covid-19 state authoritarianism look like a walk in the parkIt’s easy to laugh when middle-class greenies write about their eco-anxiety, under headlines like ‘Can you drink milk and stay ethical?’, but there’s a deadly serious side to this that threatens to curtail our freedoms.
- Forget about QAnon and other conspiracy theorists. The EU now peddles Covid-19 vaccine misinformation to undermine Brexit UKBrussels 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.
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