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The case for 'BritCoin' and more central bank ventures

Comment: The Bank of England is an underused brand, which should be put to work – creating a digital currency or providing financial services to those with poor credit, says Daniel Davies

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New work order

With their clubby nature and grand cultural claims – and for some, health insurance and living quarters – the empires of coworking space are becoming our new corporate parents

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Basic income is a terrible, inequitable solution to technological disruption

Comment: A universal wage will only worsen division. We should redistribute work not wealth, says Emran Mian

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Dance moves: James Brown's single-handed invention of funk

In our series on innovation in dance music we look at James Brown's invention of funk

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Hot desks: Stockholm's school without classrooms

Our series on innovative working environments continues with a visit to Vittra Telefonplan, a Swedish school where classes take place at a mountain top, cave and campfire

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Froggy Goes Piggy, by Jo Lindsay Walton

Our series of short fiction exploring the future of collective intelligence concludes

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In touch with the readers: India's lifestyle magazine for the blind

Upasana Makati couldn't find a decent magazine for the visually impaired. So she created one of her own

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How the Beatles gave us the CT scan, and what it tells us about innovation

If you want to understand the relationship between financial markets and innovation, consider the story of how the Beatles helped revolutionise medical imaging

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Hot desks: Inside LEGO's imaginative London office

The first in a series on innovative working environments looks at LEGO's new UK hub, where workspaces based on activity​ replace the traditional one-desk-per-person model

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The forests bear the carbon

What a campaign to preserve​ woods in the Himalayan foothills tells us about the global war against climate change