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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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  • Monday, 19 August, 2019
    Food & Beverage
    The food industry is due another revolution

    Data-rich delivery companies will know their customers far better than a restaurant ever can

  • Monday, 19 August, 2019
    Tech Tonic podcast24 min listen
    Nicolas Berggruen on democracy in the digital age

    The billionaire philanthropist talks about his book on renovating democracy

  • Saturday, 10 August, 2019
    News in Focus podcast14 min listen
    Living with intelligent machines

    What will the world look like when machines are cleverer than we are?

  • Friday, 9 August, 2019
    Life & Arts
    AI and literature: the muse in the machine

    Novelists are captivated by the potential of artificial intelligence. But what happens when the machines start writing about us?

  • Monday, 5 August, 2019
    Smart cities
    Smart cities still need a human touch

    Urban experiments in Toronto and Barcelona will inform policymakers around the world

  • Monday, 22 July, 2019
    Artificial intelligence
    Formulating AI values is hard when humans don’t agree

    China and the west prioritise different things in algorithms

  • Monday, 22 July, 2019
    Tech Tonic podcast32 min listen
    Mariana Mazzucato on sustainable growth

    John Thornhill talks to the economist

  • Monday, 15 July, 2019
    Tech Tonic podcast31 min listen
    Paul Clarke on robotics and digital twins

    Ocado’s chief technology officer explains his vision for the future of ecommerce

  • Thursday, 11 July, 2019
    FT Books Essay
    Does tech threaten to rerun the worst of the Industrial Revolution?

    Well-argued book ‘The Technology Trap’ raises alarms about the impact of change

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    He argues they hit the poor harder than the rich — but so does obesity

  • Monday, 1 July, 2019
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    John Browne on engineering the future

    John Thornhill talks to the former chief executive of BP

  • Friday, 28 June, 2019
    Culture Call podcast38 min listen
    Our big summer books episode! Plus, Simon Schama

    What the year’s best tech books say about our cultural psyche

  • Monday, 24 June, 2019
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    Teachers should enrich life, not worship the machine

    There is a danger that edtech may only worsen the industrialisation of the current system

  • Friday, 21 June, 2019
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    Summer books of 2019: Technology

    John Thornhill selects his mid-year reads

  • Friday, 14 June, 2019
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    Armen Sarkissian: ‘The moment you stop learning, you die’

    The Armenian president and physicist on Byron, Kim Kardashian — and the new ‘quantum politics’

  • Monday, 10 June, 2019
    Technology regulation
    The case for not regulating Big Tech

    Competition, not intervention, is often the best way to tackle potential monopolies

  • Monday, 27 May, 2019
    Technology sector
    We must regulate facial recognition technology

    There are powerful principled and practical objections to its use

  • Friday, 17 May, 2019
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    Governments are the frenemies of society on hacking

    Smart, unscrupulous players are exploiting the vulnerabilities of our digital devices

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    Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century — poignant witness

    A stirring biography of one of the greatest chroniclers of the horrors of Nazism and Stalinism

  • Monday, 6 May, 2019
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    The hashtag is both rebel yell and corporate tool

    Free expression online is in danger of being reclaimed by marketers and governments

  • Monday, 22 April, 2019
    Brexit
    Brexit has a chance to kick-start a period of radical change

    Britain could end up being one of the most interesting and revolutionary places

  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2019
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    Rana Yared on investing in fintech

    John Thonhill talks to Rana Yared, a partner and managing director at Goldman Sachs’…

  • Monday, 8 April, 2019
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    Beware the behemoths rushing to market

    Lyft, Uber and Airbnb impress in almost every respect — but they do not make money

  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2019
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    Marcus du Sautoy on creative AI

    John Thornhill talks to Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy about his book: The Cr…

  • Wednesday, 27 March, 2019
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