by dgw_HDSadmin | Feb 15, 2012 | Archive, Identity is the New Money, Will Robots Need Passports?
When the App Store first came along for the Macintosh using OS X, I wonder whether I would ever use it because they seem to be plenty of ways to buy software already. But I’ve already reached the point where I will only buy software through the App Store, for...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Dec 24, 2011 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
A couple of years ago I was interviewed on the BBC television programme “Working Lunch”, shortly after which it was taken of the air and is sadly now only a memory. It happened to be on a day in the school holidays and I was taking my sons into London to...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Dec 5, 2011 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
I once read a fascinating article in Prospect magazine about an experiment to explore moral dilemmas. The thought experiment rests on notions of railways, tracks and switches: essentially, people are asked to make choices about life and death. In one experiment, you...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Dec 4, 2011 | Archive, Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin, Will Robots Need Passports?
My chum Tony Poulos interviewed an analyst from Ovum about mobile data pricing recently. I was listening to this, and it reminded me about a huge telecommunications conference that I attended a couple of months ago. There were hundreds of people and operators from all...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Sep 29, 2011 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
I posted before about a great financial crisis, industry collapse and bailouts. Not the banks of today, but the railways of the Victorian age . When the Directors of these gigantic enterprises that dominated the economy went to see the Prime Minister in 1867 to ask...
