Nobel Laureate Cries Freedom

I was in Dublin yesterday at the monthly SEED art-science salon. Harry Kroto - noble prize winner and chemist - gave a talk to about twenty five of us on how his interest in art led to scientific discovery and the Nobel prize. It may not be immediately obvious why that is important to the […]

Knowledge Unmanaged

We know less about the future than we’ve ever done. Because I just turned up on technology voices I thought this argument needed a revisit this time for a technology audience.
From The San Francisco Bay Area to the Austrian Alps, entrepreneurs and conglomerates are probing how the average viewer is evolving as a media animal.
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Newspaper Decline

This comes from a New York media investment firm and the negatives for newspapers are backed also by the World Editors Forum, a think tank for newspaper editors. First the banker.
“The decline of the newspaper business is a crime we’re all witnessing, though it seems few CEOs are being called to account. With few […]

BBC Watch

The world's most powerful broadcaster was at it again last night, confusing the role of news reporter, priest, advocate and self-publicist. On its main evening news Read More…

The philosophy

For the launch of 2006 Broadcast Live, a few words about the impact of IPTV, podcasting and blogs. Read More…

The Vision Thing - Who Owns It?

The surprise element of the IPTV world is Read More…

More on Gates

The weekend papers were busy trying out new ideas. Like - does Bill Gates' departure mean crisis, the final unravelling, or hmmmm, let's think.
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Closing the Gates

Thirty years of defining the nature of information technology, and latterly the future of gaming, and television, is tiring. Yes, I've decided enough is enough. I won't listen to Bill Gates any longer. Read More…

Wiki’s Progress

Economists now use the Big Mac as a guide to inflation and the� cost of living� across the world, assuming that the price of the Big Mac will always tend towards equilibrium. In the IT business Microsoft might equally be used as a point of comparison for the popularity of community tools. If Microsoft start […]

The Blog Impact in US Politics

Well it's starting to show. People engaged in blogs have opinions quite different from voters who don't read blogs. Read More…

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