Today’s first coffee companion is involved with the Centre for Computing History in his spare time.
We talked about:
- the Spark the Change conference where we first met
- being heckled by a robot
- the absence of social science understanding in so many senior business leaders (particularly when it comes to the group rather than the individual)
- the Clocks versus Clouds metaphor and how we too often crave simplicity in complex scenarios
- sliding doors moments in careers
- the way in which student union involvement shaped our political outlooks in later life
- how if you had asked “Which of these groups will find themselves most embedded in the political establishment in 30 years’ time?” the very last group you would have picked would have been the Revolutionary Communist Party. Now some of them sit in the House of Lords…
- falling into the technology world
- the rich history of computing in the UK (and how we do so little to talk about it)
- cycle paths
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