by dgw_HDSadmin | Dec 24, 2011 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
A couple of years ago I was interviewed on the BBC television programme “Working Lunch”, shortly after which it was taken of the air and is sadly now only a memory. It happened to be on a day in the school holidays and I was taking my sons into London to...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Dec 5, 2011 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
I once read a fascinating article in Prospect magazine about an experiment to explore moral dilemmas. The thought experiment rests on notions of railways, tracks and switches: essentially, people are asked to make choices about life and death. In one experiment, you...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Dec 4, 2011 | Archive, Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin, Will Robots Need Passports?
My chum Tony Poulos interviewed an analyst from Ovum about mobile data pricing recently. I was listening to this, and it reminded me about a huge telecommunications conference that I attended a couple of months ago. There were hundreds of people and operators from all...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Sep 29, 2011 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
I posted before about a great financial crisis, industry collapse and bailouts. Not the banks of today, but the railways of the Victorian age . When the Directors of these gigantic enterprises that dominated the economy went to see the Prime Minister in 1867 to ask...
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,...
