# Wingham Rowan

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Lost in the Super Market: Frictionless Exchange

What happens to markets as the digital age improves their efficiency and introduces them to new domains? As a part of our "Lost in the Super Market: Navigating the Digital Age" collection, American Compass convened contributing writers Wingham Rowan (Modern Markets for All) and Neil Chilson (Charle…

Modern Markets for All: How a Government Utility Could Revolutionize Gig Work

Wingham Rowan has long been a leader in forecasting the interactions between technology and society. For instance, he created, produced, and presented cyber.cafe, Britain’s longest running TV series about the internet. He also was a presenter on his own program for children, Rowan’s Report. More re…

A Conversation with Wingham Rowan, Speaker and Gig Economy Expert

Today on the Sounds and Words podcast, my guest is Wingham Rowan, former television journalist, current speaker, author, and Gig Economy expert. If you haven't noticed recently, today's workforce is changing at lightning speed. While Uber and Lyft may make headlines, the new challenges facing the…

What Governments Can Do, “Public Official E-Markets” – A Look Back To The 1930s & Ahead To Post Covid-19 Recovery

Marketplaces are evolving in ways that can seem to be stacked against regular people. Some claim that aggressive new labour markets like Uber mislead work-seekers, slash pay, withhold data, systematically undermine regulation, impede training, and lobby against worker rights. They claim Uber is not…

Modern markets for all w/ Wingham Rowan - EP167

In The New Yorker, Wingham Rowan was described as a “labor reformer” who “wants to reimagine labor markets for the digital age.” In episode 167 of Economics Explored, Wingham talks to host Gene Tunny about the potential of Public Official e-Markets. Wingham is a former British TV presenter who is n…

A ‘Public Option’ for the Gig Economy? w/Wingham Rowan

Since the advent of platforms like Uber, Instacart, and DoorDash, the so-called gig economy has been intertwined with technology. While the apps no doubt created loads of opportunity for people seeking flexible work on their own schedules, they have been lambasted by critics who say they don’t prov…

Beyond 9 to 5: Facilitating Good Jobs for People with Unpredictable Schedules

Since the mid-1900s, the nine-to-five work schedule has often been viewed as the standard. For many workers, this schedule has never worked. Parenting and other caregiving responsibilities, health challenges, the pursuit of education and skills, existing employment, and other factors mean many peop…

Online Platforms – The New Arteries of Capitalism

What is Their Impact on Affordability, Inequality, Sovereignty, Productivity and Resource Allocation? Is There a Case for Publicly Provided Alternatives? Since the 2010s, digital platforms have become an increasingly prominent feature of modern economies, reshaping markets for labour, finance, good…

533: cyber.cafe: The 90s TV Show That Exposed the Internet's Wild Side - The Retro Hour EP533

This week, we’re joined by Wingham Rowan, creator and host of the pioneering ’90s ITV show cyber.cafe. Long before YouTube, Twitch, Tinder and social media, cyber.cafe explored the strange, funny and sometimes shocking human stories emerging from the early internet, from chat room romances and on…