Us Now

by | Dec 12, 2009


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This is the first bit of Us Now, an hour-long film by Ivo Gormley – screened on Channel 4 but with the entire thing available free over the web – on social networking technologies, mass collaboration, and what they mean for government.  Here’s the rest. (You can also find it in segments on YouTube if you prefer.)

Author

  • Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017). He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development. Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.


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