Technology New tech to help disabled people
By: Laura Potier September 8, 2019 Electrical stimulation Nine years ago, David Mzee was left paralysed by a gymnastics accident and told he would never walk again. Last week, he competed in a charity run during which he walked 390 metres, thanks to an experimental treatment that uses electrical stimulation of the spinal cord to […]
Inequality – Why and How Might Investors Respond to Economic Inequality?
By: PRI OVERVIEW Economic inequality, understood as the gap between the rich and poor in income and wealth, has received extensive and continuing attention in public and academic discourse across the globe since the financial crisis.1 New research on the nature, causes and consequences of inequality seems to come every week, and considerable political discussion […]
Decentralisation: the next big step for the world wide web
By: Zoe Corbyn September 8, 2019 The story that broke early last month that Google would again cooperate with Chinese authorities to run a censored version of its search engine, something the tech giant has neither confirmed nor denied, had ironic timing. The same day, a group of 800 web builders and others – among […]