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...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Jun 7, 2013 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
Since I am flying around Europe in economy class a lot at the moment, one of my pet hates is the abuse of the carry-on rules, particularly (I’ve observed) by women. The rule is ONE carry-on. Like all sensible travellers, I have a sturdy piece of Samsonite that...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Jun 5, 2013 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
There was an article in The Daily Telegraph that I read on the plane yesterday. It’s titled “The happiest marriages start on the internet” and it’s about a large-scale survey that appears to show that couples who met on the web have a...
by dgw_HDSadmin | May 27, 2013 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
The “The Law of the Telephone” by Herbert Kellogg in The Yale Law Journal 4(6) (June 1895) is a fantastic read. It begins by establishing that the basis of the law of the telephone is the law of the telegraph: Like all common carriers the telephone company...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Jan 31, 2013 | Archive, Identity is the New Money, Will Robots Need Passports?
It is 1975, and at the Park Senior High School (as bog standard a comprehensive as they came) a group of curious schoolboys led by a farsighted maths teacher take the bus into Swindon town centre and enter the headquarters of the Nationwide Building Society. There, we...
