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 | 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 | Jun 30, 2012 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
Well, excellent scoop from Channel 4. Apparently, the government has discovered a Magic Box of some description. Internet and phone firms are preparing to install “black boxes” to monitor UK internet and phone traffic, and decode encrypted messages –...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Jun 3, 2012 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
A few years ago, while banging my head against the brick wall that was Her Majesty’s Government’s ID Cards scheme, I had an idea for trying to explain what technology could do to deliver a better national identity infrastructure for the 21st century: use Dr. Who’s...
