Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education. Geoff Mulgan More Quotes by Geoff Mulgan More Quotes From Geoff Mulgan On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so. Geoff Mulgan environmental upset thinking 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. Geoff Mulgan justice people years Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest in new ways of using the web to 'crowdsource' ideas, or the many experiments involving users in designing services. Geoff Mulgan innovation design ideas The really interesting moment will be when you have a critical mass of people engaging through the networks, more than through the press and TV. When that happens, the culture of politics has to change, moving away from controlled one-way messages towards a political culture that is more questioning. Geoff Mulgan people interesting moving Systems governed by only one set of rules are more vulnerable than those with variety. Geoff Mulgan variety vulnerable The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate in, including media, non-governmental organisations and the public. Geoff Mulgan good media government responsibility Capitalism is not so much an aberration as a step on an evolutionary path, and one that contains within it some of the answers to its own contradictions. Geoff Mulgan step own capitalism path People don't want charities to usurp the state as the core provider of social services. Geoff Mulgan core social want people
