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Spreading an idea is hard work.

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Geoff Mulgan
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 1
Economist
Writer
Spreading
Idea
Ideas
Hard
Work

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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.
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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.
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I'm not saying [economic] growth is wrong, but throughout the years of growth, many things didn't get better. ... If you look at America, the proportion of Americans with no one to talk to about important things went up from a tenth to a quarter.
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Health is already a dominant sector in most societies and the one most guaranteed to grow.
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With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are.
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The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.
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Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of cynicism.
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Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.
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Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats promote their welfare deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge.
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Young people who were relaxed about posting every detail of their life on Facebook become a lot less relaxed when they realise just how transparent their life has become to future employers.
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I didn't much like being in Parliament physically. I found it a bit depressing. It's very dark and heavy. I like being out and about.
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All innovation is about letting go, saying goodbye to things to create space for the new.
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Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers.
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All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.
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In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties in a way, that there are no longer anti-democratic movements, activists, and parties.
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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.
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Bangalore has become a centre for healthcare.
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Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.
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Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.
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The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.
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