Jamie Bartlett

It is important that everyone receives the same message – or at least knows what others are receiving. That’s how we are able to thrash out the issues of the day. If everyone receives personalised messages, there is no common public debate – just millions of private ones. In addition to narrowing the scope of political debate (research suggests that candidates are more likely to campaign on polarising issues when the forum is not public), this will diminish political accountability

Tribalism and ‘system one’ thinking are the direct products of information overload. These are ideal conditions for division and disagreement to turn into existential opposition. There’s nothing wrong per se with political tribes. In democracies some degree of partisanship is necessary and even desirable.9 But if partisanship overwhelms everything democracy breaks down because it makes compromise impossible. Reason and argument give way to emotion and blind tribal loyalty

The safest, and most likely to be created, work will be ‘non-routine’. The strange thing about our economy is that non-routine jobs tend to be either very well or very badly paid