by dgw_HDSadmin | Sep 18, 2011 | Archive, Identity is the New Money, Will Robots Need Passports?
I have an unusual story to relate. I obtained it first hand, from a contact I believe to be reliable, and I couldn’t resist posting it. Please don’t bother asking who I got it from, I will not tell even if waterboarded (well, maybe if London Pride-boarded)...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Aug 26, 2011 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
In a way, we shouldn’t be surprised at some of the bonkers comments that ministers and members of Parliament are making about mobile phones, social media and the role of the inter-web tubes in the recent unpleasantness in London and some of our other deprived,...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Aug 22, 2011 | Archive, Identity is the New Money, Will Robots Need Passports?
E-Books are, to me, an emotional topic because I’m so viscerally connected to the book as a physical artefact and the bookshop as a physical place. Yet e-books are undeniably eating away at paper and shelves. Europe has lagged behind the U.S. in widespread...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Aug 7, 2011 | Archive, Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin, Will Robots Need Passports?
Yet more speed camera misery in our house. 50 in a 40 at 12.30pm on a deserted stretch of well-lit road near Guildford. But hurrah! A form arrives saying that as a means to rachet up middle-class motoring taxation a notch further, my good lady wife can opt to go to on...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Aug 2, 2011 | Archive, Identity is the New Money, Will Robots Need Passports?
One of the fellow members of my writers’ circle wrote an excellent short story (that really should have been a novella) about the future, in which people met in cyberspace, for reasons that I will not spoil by divulging. In her story, her characters refer to...
