Posted July 27, 2021 by # Probably42

  We 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...

Posted July 27, 2021 by # Probably42

We 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...

Posted May 18, 2021 by # Probably42

Why 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 April 8, 2021 by # Probably42

This 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 October 3, 2018 by Tony Clack

Grateful 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...

Posted July 18, 2018 by # Probably42

We'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...

Posted July 18, 2018 by # Probably42

At 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...

Posted July 18, 2018 by # Probably42

Rather 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 January 27, 2018 by Tony Clack

Politics, 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 October 25, 2017 by Tony Clack

The '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 August 10, 2017 by Tony Clack

This 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 July 4, 2017 by Tony Clack

This 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 May 25, 2017 by Tony Clack

F1 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 April 29, 2017 by Madeleine Boom

Online 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 March 9, 2017 by David Sinclair

The 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 March 2, 2017 by Tony Clack

Summary (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 February 20, 2017 by David Sinclair

Business 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 January 31, 2017 by # Probably42

  There 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...