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It's been 50 years since the first prototype for the mouse was demonstrated in San Francisco. This the story of how it changed Silicon Valley – and the world.
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There’s an orderly fashion to so-called disruptive “manifestations”, as they’re called in French. But the “gilets jaunes” didn’t follow the rules. So who exactly broke the rules?
Long read: How nature is fighting our attempts to use biohacking to live forever.
New research shows supporting angel investors, rather than giving startups ‘founding’ help, fosters entrepreneurship.
Who would you rather work for: Apple or Domino’s Pizza?
Industrial action by Google workers shows collective representation is needed even in what is meant to be the best company in the world.
At a time when discussions about tech companies revolve around algorithms making automated decisions, the walkout gives Google a thousand human faces.
Our ‘Tony Stark’ image of tech moguls is obscuring the talent and toil of ordinary workers, and inflating the egos of the bosses.
Google needs to stop relying on just advertising if it wants to be successful in the next 20 years – but that is proving difficult.
Talk of Saudi Arabia helping Elon Musk take Tesla private is the latest example of a long line of sovereign wealth fund investments.
We urgently need to contemplate the myths we tell about ourselves and technology as a way of evaluating the relationship between the two.
Big technology firms are becoming known for mistreating workers, customers and society as a whole. Is an economic powerhouse about to collapse like Detroit did years go?
When organizations dedicated to doing good make money their top priority, they get into trouble.
Large Silicon Valley firms are not particularly diverse in terms of gender or race, but there are some companies doing better than their peers.
Elizabeth Holmes has been charged with ‘massive fraud’. She maintains her innocence but what lessons can boards take away from the whole affair?
Automation could transform our working world. Here’s what we can do to ensure it is a more gender equal one.
The dangers of AI solutionism need to be addressed.
Americans’ widespread belief that they live in a meritocracy where anyone can get ahead actually makes inequality even worse, particularly in terms of gender.
Research has found Silicon Valley engineers feared speaking up when they recognise poor behaviour among their male colleagues.
Uber, Tesla and Waymo (Google) are leapfrogging traditional car makers like Ford, VW and General Motors when it comes to self-driving cars.
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Professor of Practice, Associate Dean, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Professor of Management, University of Essex
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Research Fellow, Digital Cultures & Societies, The University of Queensland
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Vice Dean, Global Engagement | Associate Professor in Political Economy and Entrepreneurship, King's College London
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Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, James Cook University
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Professor of Political Theory, Queen Mary University of London
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Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and Professor of Management and Sociology, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor in Media Theory and History, Università di Torino
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Lecturer in American Studies, University of Hull
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Visiting Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Innovation and Digital Leadership, University of Brighton
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Former RBC Financial Group Professor of Entrepreneurship; Associate Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia
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Emeritus Professor, MTN Solution Space Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Urban and Cultural Geography, Western Sydney University
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Emeritus Professor of Science, Technology and Society, University of Glasgow