by dgw_HDSadmin | Aug 22, 2011 | Archive, Identity is the New Money, Will Robots Need Passports?
E-Books are, to me, an emotional topic because I’m so viscerally connected to the book as a physical artefact and the bookshop as a physical place. Yet e-books are undeniably eating away at paper and shelves. Europe has lagged behind the U.S. in widespread...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Aug 7, 2011 | Archive, Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin, Will Robots Need Passports?
Yet more speed camera misery in our house. 50 in a 40 at 12.30pm on a deserted stretch of well-lit road near Guildford. But hurrah! A form arrives saying that as a means to rachet up middle-class motoring taxation a notch further, my good lady wife can opt to go to on...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Aug 2, 2011 | Archive, Identity is the New Money, Will Robots Need Passports?
One of the fellow members of my writers’ circle wrote an excellent short story (that really should have been a novella) about the future, in which people met in cyberspace, for reasons that I will not spoil by divulging. In her story, her characters refer to...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Jul 17, 2011 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
I’m always suspicious when Home Secretaries get involved in the Internet, or indeed any other form of new technology. They are not, by and large, people who understand technical issues and are therefore subject to blandishments of management consultants and...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Jul 10, 2011 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
Our Communications Commissar, Mr. Ed Vaizey, has been having some more meetings with key stakeholders (other than, for example, the public) about copyright and such like. The people consulted about this are, naturally, the vested interests who would benefit from...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Jun 19, 2011 | Archive, Identity is the New Money, Will Robots Need Passports?
Emily Nagel, the CEO of Yankee Group, has a book called “Anywhere”. I happened to be reading this last week, and I came across the section on “I’m from the government and I’m here to help” in Chapter 11, “Anywhere...
