Ideas for our Future
Harnessing our joint Knowledge, Skills and Experience to address the big issues and opportunities of our time
This section is a sub-section of the Ideas Documents section.
The Ideas Documents section is for Ideas that are reasonably well developed e.g. a paper on a subject, or the output of a Pie and Pint meeting, or where the writer prefers to publish the idea as an uploaded document.
This sub-section provides an alternative way of publishing ideas in an Ideas blog. It is especially appropriate for formative ideas where comments and interaction are wanted to develop it before publishing it as a proposal. However, you can also use it for highlighting a particular proposal document you want to get comments on.
Helping others develop their ideas is a key part of getting involved with Probably42, so do view the Ideas blogs below and comment on those that particularly interest you. When viewing a blog you'll find a Subscribe option in the left hand menu so that you can be alerted to any additions or comments added to it.
When you are ready to input your own idea just use the Write New Entry button above and read our short Guidelines on how to go about it.
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byWe have prepared a document AI - Ethics and Regulation as a result of attending one of the APPG (All Party Parliamentary Group) on AI, series of events on inputs to the Governments AI Strategy. This particu Read More...
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byWe recently produced n input to the AI Council as part of feedback on their AI Roadmap. The AI Roadmap will be an input to the Government on their AI Strategy. Our document is at AI Strategy Input. What a Read More...
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byWhy would we want to Engender a National Obsession with Productivity? Organisations improving their productivity levels are able to invest more, generate more profit, pay more to the Exchequer and are more compe Read More...
Posted # Probably42
byThis short overview summarises the issue regarding the impact of AI on Jobs and Work and the concern that the Government isn't looking far enough ahead. It is based on the thinking and proposals in our various Considered Read More...
Posted Tony Clack
byGrateful for any comments on this short paper which can be viewed at http://www.probably42.net/documents/2/45/meritocratic-capitalism. Meritocratic Capitalism is about rewarding organisational merit for the benefit of s Read More...
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byWe've recently updated the Ideas Manifesto which collects together the best ideas published on Probably 42 into a coherent document which addresses 10 Top Issues of our time. You can view it at http://www.probably42.net Read More...
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byAt the end of 2017 we provided input to the House of Lords select committee on Artificial Intelligence. You can see what we had to say at http://www.probably42.net/documents/1/15/submission-to-the-lords-select-committee- Read More...
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byRather than publish Ideas as Ideas blogs, we have published them for the moment under the Proposals section as a series of Ideas documents. You can see the wide range of these by browsing the Proposals section. If you w Read More...
Posted Tony Clack
byPolitics, Business and the Common Good and the relevance to Probably42. To help with my own thinking in retirement about some of the big issues and then coming up with ideas for how we might tackle them, I decided to do Read More...
Posted Tony Clack
byThe 'strawman' objectives put forward for discussion below were just one part of a Pie and Pint discussion group on the topic of education. The full output is available in the Proposal/Document section at http://www.prob Read More...
Posted Tony Clack
byThis Ideas blog entry links to a 'strawman' manifesto which draws together some of the ideas on Probably42 and is published to enable comment and improvement. It focuses on the top 10 strategie Read More...
Posted Tony Clack
byThis introductory document has now been replaced by the full manifesto filed under the Proposals category at http://www.probably42.net/documents/2/13/a-manifesto-of-ideas-for-society-in-the-21st-century
Posted Tony Clack
byF1 Format I enjoy F1 and usually watch each race but I was struck last year when watching that despite supporting Louis and therefore getting some satisfaction from him being out front, the only few seconds of excitemen Read More...
Posted Madeleine Boom
byOnline communities such as Facebook and LinkedIn are part of the structure of our lives. They inform both our online and offline behaviours and permeate many areas of our lives that would have seemed unimaginable perhaps Read More...
Posted David Sinclair
byThe Chancellor has announced that he will raise the level of National Insurance for the self-employed from April 2018. There is already some pressure for him to change his mind and there is time to persuade him to do so, Read More...
Posted Tony Clack
bySummary (full description of Issue and Idea is at http://www.probably42.net/documents/2/5/the-march-of-intelligent-automation-embryonic-version There is a potential, rather than actual, issue related to the deployment o Read More...
Posted David Sinclair
byBusiness rates are due to go up in April, to bring them in line with current rental values. This means that small and medium size businesses and shops in areas of high rental value, ie, London and the south east for Read More...
Posted # Probably42
byThere is an on-going Housing Crisis caused by the rapidly escalating price of homes over a long period of time, making owning a home unaffordable for many of our children. The description of this issue has been Read More...