Donate RSA Journal+
Become a Fellow today
Donate

Technology

results
Online

Small inventions that changed the world

02 Mar 2023
Award-winning engineer and broadcaster Roma Agrawal deconstructs our most complex feats of engineering into seven fundamental inventions that have changed our lives in dramatic ways.
Public talks

19 Apr 2023
Sir Peter Bazalgette is joined by pioneering creative entrepreneurs to discuss the importance of maximising the value of the sector to wider society and the economy.
Online

100 years of British broadcasting

15 Dec 2022
Broadcast historian David Hendy looks back on 100 years of the BBC and reflects on how BBC broadcasting came to be such a central part of the British Christmas experience.
Online

How our social connections impact our economic mobility

23 Nov 2022
Harvard economist Professor Raj Chetty and Lucy Makinson, Behavioural Insights Team discuss how connectivity, social cohesion and civic engagement can play a role in shaping income equality and economic opportunity.
Online

2022 RDI Address

17 Nov 2022
Jo da Silva DBE RDI, global director of Sustainable Development at Arup will give this year’s RDI Address on building resilience in cities and communities to reduce vulnerability and improve social wellbeing.
Online

Slouching towards utopia

13 Oct 2022
One of the world’s most celebrated economists, Brad DeLong, explains just how and why the long twentieth century’s explosion of technology and prosperity has failed to deliver us a real utopia.
Public talks

If science is to save us

29 Sep 2022
Astronomer Royal Martin Rees argues that if we are to solve the multiple crises we now face, we need long-term, rational, global thinking, guided by values science alone cannot provide.
Online

Cash, cards, crypto: inside the war for our wallets

14 Jul 2022
Campaigner and monetary anthropologist Brett Scott explores the realities of a cashless society – how it works, who stands to gain, who will get left behind and what this future means for data privacy.
Online

Can we be free in the age of the internet?

23 Jun 2022
How can we protect our right to think freely against the vast influence of the internet? Human rights lawyer Susie Alegre explores the long history and current state of the struggle to set our minds free.