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...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Mar 23, 2012 | Archive, Identity is the New Money, Will Robots Need Passports?
The science-fiction action adventure movie Aliens is one of my all-time favourite films. I’ve watched it countless times, in the cinema, on video, on DVD and now on Blu-ray in the directors cut and the original theatrical release. I know the whole film off by...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Feb 15, 2012 | Archive, Identity is the New Money, Will Robots Need Passports?
When the App Store first came along for the Macintosh using OS X, I wonder whether I would ever use it because they seem to be plenty of ways to buy software already. But I’ve already reached the point where I will only buy software through the App Store, for...
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 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 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...
