Passionate pleas have been made in the main hall at the Conservative Party Conference this week to encourage businesses to invest and promote growth in the months ahead. As the Prime Minister said in his closing speech to the Party Conference, high levels of debt, encouraged by the previous Labour ...
Writing this blog from Seattle on America's West Coast, while visiting the Microsoft campus to discuss some strategic issues concerning long-term trends, I am once again struck by how quickly the world is changing as it adapts to new circumstances and fast moving information technology.
The US has been in the ...
Now that the new European Commission has been endorsed by the European Parliament, let's go back to its policy agenda for the next five years which this blog has been covering since last summer.
Following the blog through the autumn, Barroso's attraction to a long-term vision has gradually evolved from the ...
In 1899, a confident Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, claimed "Everything that can be invented has been invented". It just goes to show that it is never easy to predict the future!
Nevertheless, as I have often argued in this blog, it is vital that ...
