No End of Jobs (1984)

Here's a special report I edited way, way back in 1984 where I and my co-authors set out a proposal for the Thatcher Government on how computer technology did not automatically mean people losing their jobs but would create what today we'd call the digital economy. In effect this was our blueprint for the creation of an UK-wide internet. That's the good news, the bad news is we were restricted by the constraints of early-1980s technology, so we opted for a fibre-optic framework rather than TCP/IP protocols. Still, our Big Idea – of rewiring the UK to create a new support infrastructurte, in the same way the railways revolution transformed the UK's economy and society in the 19th Century – deserves its footnote in history.