In a small county in northern England, a police constabulary is taking the first faltering steps to outsourcing their recidivism decisions to a machine. Can machines do it better than humans, and who decides if they should be allowed?
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Process Development Disruption in the Oil & Gas industry: Open Innovation to Drive Value in UK Under-Explored Areas
In 2015 and 2016 the UK Government took a new approach to attract interest to its oil & gas resources, adopting an open innovation model as a short and long term value driver in the country’s energy sector. First steps included large investments in acquisition of seismic data to be later published openly to academia and companies. Further measures included the creation of an oil & gas national data repository to provide enhanced and trusted data on the widest possible terms. In this essay, I describe the UK Government’s incentives to adopt this megatrend; additionally, some further questions are outlined in relation to the sector’s motivations to further commit to this development process.
Myth or Reality: Exploring the Potential for Machine Learning to Improve Care Delivery in the UK’s National Health Service
Machine-learning driven advancements in healthcare have promised much but left us waiting. Will the UK National Health Service's latest effort fare any better?
Jaguar Land Rover’s Billion-Pound Brexit Problem
UK’s largest automaker could see profits halved by import and export tariffs in post-Brexit Europe.
Brexit’s Nuclear Isolationism Threatens UK Cancer Patients
Withdrawing from the little-known Euratom Treaty jeopardizes the NHS's supply of medical radioisotopes — a quintessential case of "you don't know what you've got until it's gone."
Shooting Oneself in the Foot(ball)
Can a small island produce the world’s best football (soccer) by itself? Will English professional football survive Brexit intact?
Make Oxford Great Again: An Elite University in the Era of Protectionism
How can Oxford University maintain its global influence after the Brexit vote?
Ocado – Changing Grocery Shopping in the UK
In the UK, an online dedicated grocery store founded in 2005, disrupted an industry generating £179B annually . The Institute of Grocery Distribution estimates that by 2019 sales from convenience stores, discounters and the internet will overtake superstores and hypermarkets for the first time . How is this happening?
Climate Change: Edging the UK towards its last letter?
Climate change is having a marked impact on Royal Mail Plc's services – this post explores some of the remedial efforts taken by the company to remedy the situation.
Aviva – How to insure against the ultimate risk?
Aviva, a leading insurer, are playing a vital role in addressing climate change as active investors but they could do more.