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John Thornhill

Innovation Editor

John Thornhill is the Innovation Editor at the Financial Times writing a regular column on the impact of technology. He is also the founder of the FT125 forum, which holds monthly events for senior business executives, and host of Tech Tonic, the FT’s weekly podcast on technology.

John was previously deputy editor and news editor of the FT in London. He has also been Europe editor, Paris bureau chief, Asia editor, Moscow correspondent and Lex columnist.

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  • Thursday, 13 February, 2020
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    The prescient sci-fi writer on why the future shock of tech mirrors the Industrial Revolution

  • Monday, 3 February, 2020
    Venture capital investment
    Venture capitalists should harpoon more whales

    The worry for Silicon Valley is that the impulse for creative destruction is now fading

  • Friday, 31 January, 2020
    Life & Arts
    MIT professors keep the ideas flowing

    From getting the most out of your ketchup bottle to the ethics of academic donations

  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2020
    Technology sector
    The birth of ‘digital twins’ will transform our world

    Increasingly sophisticated representations of the real world in the cloud can catalyse growth

  • Thursday, 16 January, 2020
    Climate change
    Microsoft pledges to be ‘carbon negative’ by 2030

    Software giant announces $1bn innovation fund to combat climate crisis

  • Friday, 10 January, 2020
    Corporation tax
    Curbing the world of ‘exorbitant tax privilege’

    Pressure from voters has forced politicians to co-ordinate an international response

  • Monday, 6 January, 2020
    Innovation
    Technological trends that will shape the decade

    China will reinvent finance while computing power grows and genome sequencing becomes cheaper

  • Monday, 23 December, 2019
    Innovation
    The case for public research spending

    Innovation results from the complex interplay between state, companies and market

  • Monday, 9 December, 2019
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    How can we best prepare workforces for the unforeseeable new roles created by tech?

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  • Monday, 9 December, 2019
    Tech Tonic podcast22 min listen
    The state of European tech

    Niklas Zennström and Tom Wehmeier discuss innovation, investment and drawbacks in European tech

  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2019
    Best Books of the Year 2019
    Best books of 2019: Technology

    John Thornhill selects his must-read titles

  • Monday, 25 November, 2019
    EU tech regulation
    The people, not governments, should exercise digital sovereignty

    Europe’s leaders are right to worry about Big Tech but the answer is not to over-regulate

  • Monday, 11 November, 2019
    Technology sector
    When ‘tears of joy’ emojis turn into frowning faces

    The organisation that rules the internet’s body language is having to perform a cultural and political dance

  • Sunday, 3 November, 2019
    Tech Tonic podcast31 min listen
    Scott Kupor on VC funding

    On how to grow tech companies and the drawbacks of a venture capital dominated market

  • Monday, 28 October, 2019
    Fake news
    New tools are evolving in the fight against deepfakes

    Strengthening people’s mental antibodies could help society build a ‘herd immunity’

  • Monday, 21 October, 2019
    Tech Tonic podcast31 min listen
    Stuart Russell on losing control of AI

    John Thornhill discusses how to make artificial intelligence safe for humans with Stuart Russell

  • Monday, 14 October, 2019
    Artificial intelligence
    How to prevent robots cooking the cat

    We need AI programs that check in with humans to ensure they are doing the right thing

  • Monday, 14 October, 2019
    Tech Tonic podcast22 min listen
    Jaan Tallinn on AI safety

    John Thornhill talks to the founding engineer at Skype and Kazaa about his subsequent career as a tech investor

  • Monday, 30 September, 2019
    Climate change
    Technology can help save the planet, but not alone

    To bet everything on future innovation is one heck of a gamble with our future

  • Monday, 16 September, 2019
    Artificial intelligence
    Neural interfaces should upgrade, not degrade, humans

    Elon Musk’s vision of a merging of man and machine is startling, if not downright scary

  • Monday, 16 September, 2019
    Tech Tonic podcast24 min listen
    Sarah Chan on neural interfaces

    How do we regulate brain-enhancing technologies?

  • Monday, 9 September, 2019
    Tech Tonic podcast24 min listen
    Alice Bentinck on harnessing tech talent

    Co-founder of Entrepreneur First on finding a new generation of tech founders

  • Monday, 2 September, 2019
    Tech Tonic podcast26 min listen
    Vishal Chatrath on digital decision making

    Using AI to help speed up and improve decision making

  • Sunday, 1 September, 2019
    Social Media
    Use the market to clean up the web

    Advertisers must take far more responsibility for whom they reward online

  • Friday, 30 August, 2019
    ReviewPolitical books
    This is Not Propaganda by Peter Pomerantsev

    The Soviet-born writer warns of the ‘war against reality’ being waged by populist forces

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