by dgw_HDSadmin | Dec 24, 2013 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
I heard an interesting piece on Radio 4 a while back when an interviewer was talking to Nate Silver, the author of The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction, who used the familiar fox and hedgehog framing when discussing the way people deal with...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Nov 29, 2013 | Archive, Identity is the New Money, Will Robots Need Passports?
The Atlantic magazine published one of those articles based on the latest that I really should ignore and not take too seriously but can’t help reading — Fallows, J., “The 50 Greatest Breakthroughs Since The Wheel” in “The Atlantic”...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Oct 31, 2013 | Archive, Identity is the New Money, Will Robots Need Passports?
For reasons that are not entirely clear to me, the technology world is excited about the prospect of smart watches. Now that rumors suggest Google and LG are both planning on jumping into the smart watch war to compete with Samsung and Apple it’s time to stop...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Oct 27, 2013 | Archive, Identity is the New Money, Will Robots Need Passports?
The Great She Elephant’s mention of City AM reminded me that I made a note on this organ in my little black book, but I couldn’t remember what it was, so I went and looked it up and I realised that it was a thing I was writing about the “laws” of networks and of male...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Jun 16, 2013 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
Internet porn and surveillance is all the rage in the newspapers today. The general sense of middle England, as far as I can see, is that they want to police to snoop on their children (to stop them seeing stuff like The Daily Mail) and their neighbours (in case they...
