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...
by dgw_HDSadmin | May 13, 2012 | Archive, Will Robots Need Passports?
There’s been some media debate over the last few days about web blocking, censorship and the like., most of which makes absolutely no sense and does not come from any informed position and does not put forward any practical (or sane) suggestions for how the...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Apr 30, 2012 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
I’ve been moaning about how stupid the general public are over on my reactionary parochial HTML emulation of talk radio at its worst, Citizen of Woking. But that left me wondering how come supposedly educated people can make such sub-optimal decisions about...
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 | 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...
