In 2002 Barnsley toyed with a redesign as a Tuscan hill village as it sought out a brighter post industrial future. In 2021 it adopted the airily vague slogan “the place of possibilities”. Now it is trying a different image: Britains first “tech town”. The technology secretary, Liz Kendall, has anointed the South Yorkshire community as a trailblazer for “how AI can improve everyday life” in the UK. In the latest move in Labours drive to inject AI into Britains bloodstream, the government has...
