Category: tech

03/05/2018

Some nice turns of phrase and perspective from this article in the FT In 1829, the great Scottish historian and…

02/04/2018

Universities are certainly putting their courses online. The question is “why?” I talked last week with a University President whom…

28/03/2018

Well, just as I approached utter despair, it seems the authors of this Editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine,…

20/03/2018

It is a truism that you never understand anything unless you can understand it more than one way. I like…

15/02/2018

“People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they’re…

14/02/2018

Frederik Filloux in the ever readable Monday note. And just as big T went for the developing world, so with…

13/02/2018

I had just wanted one, but now....

05/02/2018

The Osborne effect is described in Wikipedia as follows: The Osborne effect is a term referring to the unintended consequences…

23/01/2018

The value of your mountains of data is becoming obvious, especially as you continue to push into new areas that…

16/01/2018

The internet, as digital journalist and commentator Cory Doctorow has remarked, is “an ecosystem of interruption technologies”. Always imagine that…