by dgw_HDSadmin | Nov 29, 2010 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
[Dave Birch] I think I’ve accidentally invented a new art form: “reality twitter”. It’s cheap, entertaining and infinitely better than reality TV. It happened by accident. I was on the Eurostar from Brussels and because I was really busy and...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Nov 28, 2010 | Archive, Identity is the New Money, Will Robots Need Passports?
[Dave Birch] Yes, I know you’re not supposed to substitute anecdotes about your kids for real research, knowledge and insight into the future of society, but I’ve been reflecting on an exchange with my own Generation W (as in W for “whatever”)...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Nov 18, 2010 | Archive, Identity is the New Money, Will Robots Need Passports?
[Dave Birch] Well, I’ve got to say that I absolutely lurve my new MacBook Air. I got the small one, the 11-incher, and I just bought the entry level version with 2Gb RAM and 64Gb Flash. The MacBook Pro will remain my main machine, but it will only travel from my...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Nov 7, 2010 | Archive, Will Robots Need Passports?
[Dave Birch] Some years ago, I wandered into work one morning to find the client I was working for absolutely furious. The client was an American, and he was reading about a presidential “power breakfast” or some such. It was to bring business leaders...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Oct 24, 2010 | Archive
[Dave Birch] So I watched the movie Agora on a plane, and it really annoyed me. I don’t know if you’ve seen it, but it’s set in 4th century Alexandria and it’s about Hypatia, She was a famous philosopher, murdered by a Christian mob. In the...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Oct 10, 2010 | Archive
[Dave Birch] Here’s a story about identity, just to show you how identity infrastructure works in the “real world” and how we aren’t wise to use what is alarmingly known as common sense in order to import this infrastructure across the virtual world...
