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Geoff Mulgan
English
Educator
Born:
1961
Come
Every
Good
Government
Innovation
People
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All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.
Geoff Mulgan
Collective
Narcissism
Nationalism
Kind
Understood
The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate in, including media, non-governmental organisations and the public.
Geoff Mulgan
Government
Good
Responsibility
Every
Other
System
Lies
Part
Also
Operate
Governments
Just
Public
Themselves
Organisations
Including
Media
Good Government
Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism.
Geoff Mulgan
Love
Lost
Whatever
Rich
Once
Plenty
Intrigue
Moral
Moral Compass
Favour
Steely
Had
Contain
Powerful
Most
Biases
Protect
Governments
May
Themselves
Who
Cynicism
Compass
Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money, their data, their time and their attention are routinely taken in fundamentally asymmetrical exchanges.
Geoff Mulgan
Life
Time
Capitalism
People
Money
Everyday Life
Everyday
Software
Sectors
Data
Exchanges
Part
Taken
Attention
Mainstream
Oil
Where
Fundamentally
Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks.
Geoff Mulgan
People
Extraordinary
Range
Complex
Beasts
Economies
Tasks
Need
There are hardly any apprenticeships in care; hardly any schools preparing teenagers for jobs in care; and few signs that politicians know what to do to raise the status and rewards for what will soon be one of our most important industries.
Geoff Mulgan
Care
Will
Signs
Important
Few
Politicians
Teenagers
Our
Jobs
Status
Soon
Know
Most
Schools
Industries
Any
Rewards
Preparing
Hardly
Raise
Immigration isn't always good for the economy or jobs.
Geoff Mulgan
Good
Immigration
Jobs
Economy
Always
Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.
Geoff Mulgan
Rich
Society
Our
Says
Out
Drifted
More
Get
Anyone
Apathy
Should
Who
Britain
Fatalism
Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never have its own jubilees, palaces or honours system.
Geoff Mulgan
Will
Own
Tea
Our
Honours
System
Never
Football
Part
Cakes
Much
Monarchy
Palaces
British
Health is already a dominant sector in most societies and the one most guaranteed to grow.
Geoff Mulgan
Health
Sector
Most
Dominant
Grow
Societies
Guaranteed
Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest in new ways of using the web to 'crowdsource' ideas, or the many experiments involving users in designing services.
Geoff Mulgan
Great
Innovation
Thrive
Others
Collaboration
Ways
Web
Rather
Crowdsource
New
Ideas
Involving
Doing
Than
New Ways
Just
Experiments
Interest
Social
Them
Users
Many
Using
Hence
Things
Services
Designing
Freecycle groups match people who have things they want to get rid of with people who can use them.
Geoff Mulgan
People
Match
Get
Want
Them
Use
Rid
Who
Groups
Things
Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education.
Geoff Mulgan
Education
Higher Education
Higher
Becoming
Hub
Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers.
Geoff Mulgan
Innovate
Teenagers
Cities
Obesity
Simply
Powers
Cutting
Radically
Number
Need
Everyone knows of great projects that were too dependent on a charismatic individual, or simply too expensive to be replicated.
Geoff Mulgan
Great
Too
Everyone
Projects
Charismatic
Individual
Simply
Knows
Were
Dependent
Expensive
The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.
Geoff Mulgan
Great
Change
Own
Our
Ability
Park
Attachment
Habits
Uncomfortable
Dealing
Climate
Climate Change
Shift
Biggest
Us
Choices
Ignore
Hard
Barrier
Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.
Geoff Mulgan
Innovation
Every
Bit
Through
Advance
Economies
Much
Societies
Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical memories of conflict, small events are more likely to inflame passions.
Geoff Mulgan
Memories
Culture
Conflict
Events
Strong
Simple
Economics
Resources
Way
Scarce
More
Small
Simple Way
Never
Likely
Identity
Caused
Passions
Historical
Any
Inflame
Where
Conflicts
The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen.
Geoff Mulgan
Technology
People
Too Many People
Too Much
Picture
Action
Complacency
Too
Pretty
About
Talk
Make
Make It Happen
Empowerment
Smug
Mixed
Passive
Interactive
Happen
Little
Far
Much
Connected
Users
Many
Designed
Technologies
Even many of the teenagers who feel confident on navigating the web simply don't have the skills needed to 'write and create' digital tools, not simply consume them.
Geoff Mulgan
Digital
Teenagers
Tools
Web
Write
Consume
Simply
Feel
Confident
Them
Create
Skills
Who
Many
Even
Needed
The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality.
Geoff Mulgan
Reality
Digital
Become
Other
Rapidly
Constantly
Data
Networks
Bubbling
Where
Social
Notion
Social Networks
Connected
Streams
Widespread
So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to mouth, juggling short-term funding and perpetual minor crises. Even the bigger ones rarely get much time to stand back and look at the bigger picture. Many are on a treadmill chasing after contracts and new funding.
Geoff Mulgan
Future
Time
Chasing
Picture
Mouth
Live
Society
Back
Crises
Minor
Civil
Rarely
Civil Society
New
Look
Most
Juggling
Perpetual
Hand
Contracts
Get
After
Bigger
Bigger Picture
Short-Term
Much
Organisations
Stand
Many
Even
Prepared
Treadmill
Funding
As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes in creative ways.
Geoff Mulgan
Creative
Reality
Sometimes
Internet
Virtual
Virtual Reality
Ways
Dividing
Clear
Advances
Between
Becomes
Line
Very
Blurred
Notion
Creative Ways
Things
All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments.
Geoff Mulgan
Today
Justice
Learning
Innovation
World
Problems
Society
Despite
Distance
Pressing
Some
Tackling
Facing
Over
Fair
Most
Fair Trade
Because
Housing
Trade
Reduction
Governments
Urban
Social
Farming
Help
Growing
Waste
A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far, it soon becomes poisonous.
Geoff Mulgan
World
Healthy
Live
Too
Everyone
Would
Hated
Entirely
Taken
Poisonous
Soon
Becomes
Self-Love
Where
Want
Dose
Modest
Far
Themselves
Who
Capitalism is not so much an aberration as a step on an evolutionary path, and one that contains within it some of the answers to its own contradictions.
Geoff Mulgan
Capitalism
Path
Own
Evolutionary
Aberration
Some
Step
Contains
Within
Answers
Contradictions
Much
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