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Despite the association of ‘Luddite’ with a naïve rejection of technology, the term and its origins are far richer and more complex than you might think.
Evidence in Earth’s natural archives, from tree rings to seafloor sediments, points to one trend. Some climate models suggest another.
The idea that human activity threatens nature, and that it is important to protect wild places, dates back to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
A schooling reform project is taking lessons from innovative high schools and educators in New Zealand, Southern California and Canada to make schooling more relevant for students today.
Women in the textile factories of 19th-century Glasgow faced terrible working conditions. In fighting for their rights, they prepared the ground for feminists today.
The wildfires of the past were as fierce, deadly and eerily similar to the ones we have today. And we have yet to learn to live with them.
Understanding how our ancestors may have benefited from industrialisation and colonialism could help us become more climate-friendly citizens.
Lawyers were thought to be mostly immune from the coming AI revolution, but two legal experts explain why jobs that rely on human ingenuity can still be affected.
Sweden electrified at the turn of the 20th century, leading to over 8,000 work stoppages – but the strikers were no Luddites.
Artificial intelligence is supported by an infrastructure of hardware and software that is growing increasingly present in our lives, yet remains hidden in plain view.
More than a fifth of US children were working in 1900, and many Americans saw nothing wrong with that. It took decades of activism and court battles plus economic upheaval to change course.
Nigeria’s education system must embrace artificial intelligence technologies to join the fourth industrial revolution.
The pagans paved the way for our modern festivities.
Born the same year as Queen Victoria, Eliot faced similar life choices to many young women today
As early as the 1860s the twin diseases of modernity – overwork and sleeplessness – became the focus of cultural anxieties.
The design of the global money game is the real antagonist in the fight against climate change. But the call to arms tends to be directed at the players who have had best luck with the dice.
With each industrial revolution, food production and distribution has been revolutionized. With the current Fourth Industrial Revolution, can we address inequalities in food distribution?
Two management experts devised a new way to predict whether your job is likely to get stolen by a robot – and what you can do about it.
The Earth’s past shows the key role of CO₂ on climate for 4.45 billion years, and how human industrial activity has disrupted its cycle at an unprecedented rate over the past 160 years.
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Earth and paleo-climate scientist, Australian National University
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Chief Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; Deputy Director for the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Australian National University
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Director, Ikigai Research, University of Tasmania
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Vice-chancellor, University of Buckingham
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Research economist, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, Tsinghua University
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Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Historical Geography and Intellectual History, University of Bristol
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Senior lecturer, Macquarie University
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Senior Professor of Economic and Business History, University of Wollongong
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Senior Teaching Fellow, Management Science & Innovation, UCL
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Research Professor, Hertfordshire Business School, University of Hertfordshire
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Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions, Arizona State University
