by dgw_HDSadmin | Mar 9, 2011 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
[Dave Birch] I was writing something about mobile payments when I began to think that the way that we use phones for things like payments is still pretty new, and that we probably don’t envisage how they will be used in the future, in the sense that while I can...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Feb 1, 2011 | Archive, Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin, Will Robots Need Passports?
[Dave Birch] The number of times I’ve found myself enraged by the expense of wifi — in a hotel, at a train station, wherever — is huge, but I think becoming slightly rarer. Apart from hotels, where the wifi charges are absolutely ridiculous, the...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Jan 21, 2011 | Archive, Identity is the New Money, Will Robots Need Passports?
[Dave Birch] I hate the stupid “captcha” codes that some web sites use to determine whether you are person or a spam bot when logging in to a web site. Earlier todsy I had to create yet another Windows Live ID because I’d forgotten what my old one...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Jan 13, 2011 | Archive, Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin, Will Robots Need Passports?
[Dave Birch] Here’s an example. I just paid £17.38 for “Bernie Plays Rory” by Bernie Marsden. Why? Because I wanted it and couldn’t find it on iTunes. There was no need to try and find a pirate version to see if I played it a few times because...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Dec 19, 2010 | Archive, Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin, Will Robots Need Passports?
[Dave Birch] A fascinating research paper shows that male chess players choose significantly riskier strategies when playing against an attractive female opponent, even though this does not improve their performance. Women’s strategies are not affected by the...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Dec 8, 2010 | Archive, Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin, Will Robots Need Passports?
[Dave Birch] There’s an interesting post over at Virtual Economics. I’ve been thinking about it quite a bit about it since I read it. It’s about adding a new convention to Twittering to help when people tweet about companies: There’s already an...
