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Editor's note
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When the A380 super-jumbo jet first flew in 2005, it represented the future for Airbus. The new airliner could carry more than 800 passengers on two decks, featured high-tech components and promised to revolutionise air travel. And with air traffic projected to double in the coming years, what could go wrong? Plenty, including the 2008 financial crisis, the rise of low-cost airlines and the weakening of long-time leaders that were supposed to snap up A380s by the dozen. With the announcement of the cancellation of the A380, Oihab Allal-Chérif looks back at how a high-tech marvel turned into a commercial flop.
Facebook has broken privacy and competition laws and should be urgently subject to new regulation – these were the stark findings of a UK parliamentary report into fake news and the spread of online information. But regulators are currently bound by old methods that make them ineffective in the age of the algorithm and big data. This, argues Emanuele Giovannetti, is why we need new algorithmic regulation.
The number 282 might be meaningless to most of us, but every Scottish mountain enthusiast knows it’s the number of “Munros” – meaning summits that stand over 3,000 feet high. One favourite challenge is to climb all of them. David M Brown and Tom Mordue investigate why “Munro-bagging” is more popular than ever before.
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Leighton Kille
Managing Editor, The Conversation France
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The final deliveries of the A380 are anticipated for 2021.
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Oihab Allal-Chérif, Neoma Business School
The shifting market for air travel has forced Airbus to abandon the production of one of the most impressive aircraft of all time, the super-jumbo A380. Was it folly, bad luck or both?
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Emanuele Giovannetti, Anglia Ruskin University
The end of the era of self-regulation for big tech companies is nigh.
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I’ll take the high road…
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David M Brown, Northumbria University, Newcastle; Tom Mordue, Northumbria University, Newcastle
The answer to life, the universe and everything is not 42, but 282.
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Doug Specht, University of Westminster
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Alastair Lewis, University of York
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John Childs, Lancaster University
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Tim Cooper, Nottingham Trent University
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