Posted on February 23, 2016 The debate is now on and in 100 days we have to make a decision that will have repercussions for at least the next 30 years. Sovereignty Lots of people are arguing over the issues of sovereignty. But I should declare my point of view Continue Reading
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Global warming and the power of change
Posted on October 5, 2013 In 1898, delegates from across the globe gathered in New York City for the world’s first international urban planning conference. One topic dominated the discussion. It was not housing, land use, economic development, or infrastructure. The delegates were driven to desperation by horse manure. The Continue Reading
A fall in GDP might be a good thing
Two consecutive quarters of declining GDP is the definition of recession and a general cause of economic panic which can make further decline a self fulfilling prophecy. But there is something I don’t understand…. I am sure that most of you have heard of ‘Moore’s Law’ – the prediction by Continue Reading
Hadron Collider
I was just listening to a science programme and it described the camera that is used in the giant Hadron collider that is searching for the Higgs Boson or God particle in CERN. Apparently the camera that captures the images of the collision is the equivalent of a 100M pixel Continue Reading
100 Mbps broadband for every citizen by 2015
Posted on January 6, 2012 Unfortunately, that is only in Finland or South Korea where higher speed broadband access is recognised as both a human right and a vital commercial necessity. Here in England most of us are still dawdling along at 6Mbps downloads and <1Mbps upload speeds, while Continue Reading
A crisis is also an opportunity for change
Pre Christmas gloom following Osborne’s scary Autumn statement has settled like a cloak of depression over the whole country. A wasted decade of zero or less GDP growth, unemployed youth and 50 year olds thrown onto a scrap heap that is becoming cruelly indifferent to their plight. Business cut backs Continue Reading
Confidence is good for the individual and bad for the organisation
We all look to experts in order to help us navigate round an increasingly complex world. The difficulty is in working out who to trust? Is it the person who shows plenty of self confidence and never admits either being wrong, or not knowing? Or the quiet self deprecating person Continue Reading
Construction Sector Slows
Posted on November 12, 2011 The latest quarterly survey by the Office for National Statistics shows a fall of 0.6% since the last quarter and a fall of 1.8% compared with the same quarter last year. (Where the construction industry is defined as: construction and demolition work, civil engineering, new Continue Reading
The Greek Financial Crisis – June 2011
Posted on June 19, 2011 There is at least a chance that we will look back on the next 3 months as the time the world stopped!!! The country of Greece has a sovereign debt of about $500bn, which is just a bit less than that of Lehman Bank when Continue Reading
Professionals now face automation
Artificial intelligence has long been the promise of the computer industry’s future, but until recently it has been characterised by a failure to deliver on almost all fronts. But there is now a serious risk to the professional classes that over the next decade their right to power, status and Continue Reading