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Virtual doctors: easier to talk to than the real thing

At USC's Institute of Creative Technologies in LA, the future is here – and it's virtual After…

My 2016 Hub Culture interview with Tony Blair, Former UK Prime Minister

Excerpts from the interview, conducted in the Hub Culture Ice House in Davos 2016.…

Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate, “one limitation of charity is that money goes towards wonderful work but it doesn’t come back”

It was an honour and a delight to interview Professor Muhammad Yunus in the Ice House in Davos in…

A 3D printer for every school would encourage innovation

THE WEEK - JUNE 2014 Launch of a $500 printer from California boosts UK campaign to get…

What Las Vegas can teach us about backing entrepreneurs

THE WEEK - MAY 2014 Tony Hsieh's Downtown Project encourages people to take the leap: it's just…

Staggering school holidays will hurt working parents

THE WEEK - MAY 2014 #Staggered: join my campaign to keep school holidays unified - David Cameron is…

40% of online advertising misses the target: here’s why

THE WEEK - MAY 2014 Make them funny, sexy, cute and illuminating – but what really matters is that…

Fly me to the moon: Oculus Rift is just the beginning

THE WEEK - APRIL 2014 Will Zuckerberg keep to his promise to promote virtual reality outside of the…

Could we live 40 years longer? The gene merchants think so

THE WEEK - MARCH 2014 And why not modify our bodies with the gene that enables polar bears to keep…

Anti-social networking – or how secrecy became all the rage

THE WEEK - MARCH 2014 Cloak pulls in public location data to help you avoid people – and it's just…

The Uberfication of everything: sharing economy is here to stay

THE WEEK - FEBRUARY 2014 What the Uber taxi service, arriving in London from San Francisco, says…

A world without banks: why Barclays and co should be afraid

THE WEEK - FEBRUARY 2014 Tech companies are trusted more than banks – so why shouldn’t Apple or…

If We Want Economic Growth, Let Information Flow

HUB CULTURE JANUARY 2014 So it's been a big day for discussing information at Hub Culture Davos.…

Design Your Life

HUB CULTURE JANUARY 2014 Our day began with John Maeda stopping by the Hub Culture Pavilion Davos.…

Go East

Accenture’s Peter Lacy & Boston Consulting Group’s Janmejaya Sinha tell me that the future is…

Standardize All School Half Terms

I wonder if David Cameron’s cabinet had more women, as his wife Samantha points out needs to be…

Selling My Body to Science: A Field Guide

HUB CULTURE OCTOBER 2013 Hub Culture Executive Editor Edie Lush weighs in on the quantified self…

For America, is the best yet to come?

Seven Hills Debate – 21st January 2013, The Corinthia, London The good folks at Seven Hills asked…

Go East – For a Brighter Future

HUB CULTURE JANUARY 2013 Dateline: London, Edie Lush; Executive Editor, Hub Culture I was struck by…

Davos report: VC Accel Partners’ Joe Schoendorf on cloud sourcing democracy & Silicon Valley job

A year ago in Davos WEF participants watched as the Tunisian revolution spread to Egypt, fueled by…

Clean Energy Intel’s Edie Lush interviews British Solar King Jeremy Leggett

Discussion of whether demand for solar will hold up have been very topical recently. There’s clear…