From the Blog on technology

Jumping off a cliff

Growing up, I would sometimes want to do something because my friends were doing it. This reason never went down well with my parents and the retort was "if you friends jumped off a cliff, would you?" This is relevant today when think about technology. Just because we...

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Predicting the Future

Change is the only constant.  Technology speed doubles every 18 months.  Humans will colonise Mars.  Short sound bites that we have all heard before, likely more than once.  Predicting the future is an exercise fraught with difficulty, which I won't be attempting...

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Mobile Phones for Blind people

A mobile phone for blind people is definitely an eye-catching headline, but not a regularly thought-of target market, especially for smart-phones. I've blogged earlier about Siri and the iphone talking about potential benefits for the blind with this development....

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a small connected world

so i sat walking home from the java house, when my blackberry messenger went off. a colleague had just travelled from santo domingo to haiti and was stranded at the airport...he couldn't get through to people in haiti, but could get through to me...weird. so i got...

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