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John Howkins @johnhowkins

Author, 'The Creative Economy' and the recent 'Invisible Work', with new Covid-related paperback edition in March 2021 (amzn.to/3vgdKL0).

Joined February 2009
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John Howkins@johnhowkins
29 Jan 2020
Invisible Work #invisibleworktheboook #workinginvisibly
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Delighted to announce that Audiobooks is offering a 75% summer discount of my book 'Invisible Work' audiobooks.co.uk/promotions/…

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A fragment of the human cortex, mapped by Google and Harvard, by far the most detailed image yet produced. blog.google/technology/resea…

6 incredible images of the human brain built with the help of Google's AI

Google researchers and Harvard neuroscientists have worked together to reveal incredible images of the human brain.

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18 Jun 2022
to see #IPTI's 'Naturalist Art Project' in N.E. Brazil blooming is astonishing (having watched initial seeds being planted years ago): local flora and fauna on paper, textiles and now digital media, now spreading like live spores in collaborative networks vimeo.com/718040114
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Happy Bloomsday. Another reminder to read it again or listen to it. And perhaps also to read this article on Joyce the entrepreneur and Bloom the businessman. ft.com/content/0cb3929c-e165…
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CogX Festival@CogX_Festival
26 Apr 2022
🔥 WE ARE BACK! Get your pass today and join us for the world's biggest and most inclusive Festival of AI, Blockchain, the Metaverse and all the latest Transformational Technologies. Head to cogxfestival.com/festival-pa… #CogX2022
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Good to be reminded. British exports of education were worth £22.3bn in 2018, more than exports of financial services which earned £20bn. economist.com/britain/2022/0…

Chinese money is pouring into British universities

Critics claim it comes at the cost of free speech

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Amazed to be a winner at the CogX 2022 awards. Many thanks to CogX and the judges!
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Delighted to be nominated for CogX 2022 award for 'outstanding achievements and research contributions'. And excited we'll be joined at the event by Oleksandr Bornyakov, Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation, Ukraine.
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Support for Ukraine around the world
I enjoyed Alison Jones' conversation with me on her Extraordinary Business Book podcast bit.ly/3H09VhH and on YouTube youtu.be/9680dF1zmkg. Thanks, Alison.

Episode 307 – Invisible Work with John Howkins

‘Expressing an idea and getting it out there is a very skilful process… the principle is to get the other people as interested in the idea you are.’ Creative work is to a large ex…

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Gene Kogan
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21 Oct 2021
the future of AI-generated video game stock characters looks fine
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stylegan3 training on landscapes
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Greg Joswiak
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9 Jan 2022
Life moves pretty fast. 15 years ago today, the world met iPhone for the first time and in a moment everything changed. Many more big moments to come.
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As the gap widens between highly-paid invisible work and badly-paid manual work, it's worth checking out the problems of lawyers at the top who say their work is too tough. ft.com/content/07c48e6c-1868…

Don’t roll your eyes when lawyers complain about overwork

Listening to the concerns of people at the top can inform the debate over how to improve jobs at the bottom

ft.com
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A Spanish version of my article on how asset investment can help the creative economy. linkedin.com/posts/creativit… The full version is here lnkd.in/eyE4gACa
Can the US military and elite sports players teach the rest of us, including artists, how to focus, clarify and take action? Nate Zinsser shows how. Fascinating, whether you agree or not. penguin.co.uk/books/1119915/…
A clever and must-read account: asking an AI to debate for and against its own ethics at the Oxford Union theconversation.com/we-invit… via @ConversationUK
I'm looking forward to talking with Laura Callanan and Roberta Annan on The Untapped Potential of the Global Creative Economy at SOCAP21 on 20 October socapglobal.com/agenda-sessi… #invisiblework #invisibleworkthebook

Creativity, Culture & Capital: The Untapped Potential of the Global Creative Economy - SOCAP Global

Impact investors have been missing a large swath of the global economy — one driven by women, youth, indigenous peoples and other workers and entrepreneurs who are often overlooked and underestimat...

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Good new source of information on the future of work from the IFOW. Use this link to get it ifow.org/resources/knowledge… #invisiblework #invisibleworkthebook

Knowledge hub

Welcome to the Institute for the Future of Work's Knowledge Hub. Here you will find a range of resources selected by experts, academics, workers and civil society organisations representing a wide...

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I'm looking forward to this Big Brave Goose Talk on the Future of Work (subtext: disruptive business, disruptive work) next Tuesday eventbrite.co.uk/e/big-brave… @EventbriteUK #invisiblework #invisibleworkthebook
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