Gender pay gap

"Future Shock"

#LikeAGirl

"What's the point of news?"

"No Noise at Selfridges"

"Erasmus for taxi drivers"

I really like Umberto Eco's idea:
"The Erasmus idea should be compulsory – not just for students, but also for taxi drivers, plumbers and other workers. By this, I mean they need to spend time in other countries within the European Union; they should integrate."

The social elevator

"We lived today in a bogus meritocracy.Our society proclaims itself democratic and a place where anyone can rise to fame and wealth. But social mobility has declined. Modern market democracies are webs of special connections, riven with unfairness, hidden conspiracies and family deals. The children of successful lawyers,bankers, journalist and so on tend to rise to the top of the money-making professions, apparently convinced they are there because they're worth it."
- Andrew Marr, The Sunday Times

"Welcome to the Screen society"

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"Connected Communities"

Connected Communities - How social networks power and sustain the Big Society

"The dialectics of modern life"

[photo via Flickr]

"By creating the car we also create pollution, road accidents and landscapes devastated by motorways. By creating the film industry we also create Rocky 18, Home Alone 7 and Emmanuelle Meets Godzilla (actually that last one might be worth watching)."

--Prof. Daniel Miller, "Stuff"

"Dr. Ozzy"

True. We live in a society where everyone's an expert or a specialist on something. But Ozzy Osbourne as the new health-advicer at The Sunday Times??

Is it because he's the living proof that Western medicine can't explain miracles? (laughs)

"The New Collectivism"

"Temporary ownership" meets "Swapping and sharing are the new shopping" meets "Collective intelligence".

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