by dgw_HDSadmin | May 9, 2011 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
[Dave Birch] As some of you may know, there was a referendum on voting in the UK, asking the British public (a fifth of whom are functionally illiterate) what the best system for electing a Parliament is. Why anyone thought that the public might be qualified to make...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Apr 21, 2011 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
[Dave Birch] The government, generally, is made up from lawyers and PPEs, not people who really understand how anything actually works. Hence they periodically come up with technologically-enhanced versions of the Dangerous Dogs Act (or, I suppose the Dangerous DNS...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Apr 1, 2011 | Archive, Identity is the New Money, Will Robots Need Passports?
[Dave Birch] The rumours that Google and a number of other organisations have formed a study group to look at the idea of offering people free injectable NFC chips in return for special offers, coupons, additional loyalty points an a variety of value-added services...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Mar 15, 2011 | Archive, Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin, Will Robots Need Passports?
[Dave Birch] I see that Essex council has abandoned its plans to start its own bank to fund local businesses and the First Bank of Billericay, or whatever they were going to call it, will now never get off the drawing board. How this insane plan ever got to the...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Mar 9, 2011 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
[Dave Birch] I was writing something about mobile payments when I began to think that the way that we use phones for things like payments is still pretty new, and that we probably don’t envisage how they will be used in the future, in the sense that while I can...
