by dgw_HDSadmin | Jan 2, 2013 | Archive, Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin, Will Robots Need Passports?
Demystifying Communications Risk: A guide to revenue risk management in the communications sector. Mark Johnson (Gower: 2012). In telecommunications, just as in banking and retailing and most other businesses as far as I can tell, fraud is an ever present cost of...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Dec 13, 2012 | Archive, Identity is the New Money, Will Robots Need Passports?
Ambling back towards Waterloo, through the frozen streets of a wintry London, I noticed (via the Twitterverse) that old Guardian chum Aleks Krotoski was lecturing at the London School of Economics (LSE) on Tuesday night. What happy chance! Informed by serendipity, I...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Dec 2, 2012 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
When I was bored on a plane recently, I switched on a show I’d never heard of before called “House of Lies”. It was mislabelled as a comedy, although it didn’t have a single even mildly amusing line in it. It was exactly as uninteresting as you...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Oct 10, 2012 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
I started getting a lot of messages saying that people had endorsed me on LinkedIn. Many thanks to everyone who did so. I’m genuinely grateful. But I’m afraid I won’t be endorsing anyone at all. Here’s the standard response to any request for...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Aug 2, 2012 | Archive, Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin, Will Robots Need Passports?
Barclays have started a new service whereby you can upload your own image and get a personalised debit card. This sounded like a really fun idea, so I thought I’d give it a try. Unfortunately, Barclays rejected my chosen image because it “has not met our...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Jul 12, 2012 | Archive, Identity is the New Money, Will Robots Need Passports?
I’ve written before about my interest in paleofutures. I think it’s important not just to look at what people used to think about the future but why they thought it. Not to make fun of them, but to try and understand why they were wrong, so that we can use...
