I just came across an old article from Jerry Fishenden proposing how a more Creative Commons approach to the giving of personal data permissions. The way in which we give and store data about ourselves is based on a very old model at it's core. Somehow data about us becomes "their" data, and then we have … Continue reading Whose data? My data!
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Buried within the plethora of news coming out of the Google IO event yesterday is that Google are apparently including security features that Samsung have developed under the brand Knox into the next release of Android. I don't know anything about Knox, but the concept at a high level seems to me to … Continue reading The work/not work divide
A couple of weeks ago I got into a rather spirited conversation on Twitter with, amongst other people, Charles Arthur of The Guardian and Max Tatton-Brown contributor to The Telegraph. It's scary that my descent into middle age is flagged by the fact that I seem to be agreeing with the latter much more than the former … Continue reading The price of data, the cost of privacy
As I talk with people across a range of organisations about innovation and disruption, a common theme emerges - that of how we need to be able to become more accepting of failure. Failure is how we learn. We need to fail fast and fail often. It strikes me that, whilst the sentiment is … Continue reading Banning failure
Here's an interesting little connection for you... Sergey Brin and Larry Page, founders of Google, both went through Montessori education. The Montessori method has, at its core, a belief that children are natural learners and that learning therefore should be more child- rather than knowledge-centric than traditional approaches. Google appears to want to make rote … Continue reading Book review: Curious
There is an established narrative these days that runs along the lines of "Ooh. Isn't everything happening much more quickly these days?" Looking at some of the numbers, I reckon the answer is "no"... The chart above shows the adoption rates for various technologies. The internet (red line) was first used as a term by Vint … Continue reading Is it really happening that quickly?
There is a school of scientific thought prevalent in psychology and behavioural economics that sees fact emerging from rigorous, controlled experimentation. As a result much of what we understand about the way in which we think is derived from the observation of undergraduates performing laboratory tasks. Whilst there is much that can be learned from … Continue reading Book review: Seeing what others don’t
I've been talking with a diverse group of people in recent months about the subject of innovation and disruption. Here are a few observations... Firstly, in terms of terminology, there's a lot of confusion. Innovation is a term that has become a bit Zeitgeist-y, as to an extent has disruption. Let's not aim for perfect … Continue reading Milking cows
This slightly glib soundbite has been bouncing around my head for a number of months now. I'm reminded of it again with news yesterday that Apple are about to announce a new set of standards for Internet of Things things in the home. From the cursory glance of the coverage, it seems that journalists seem … Continue reading It’s the Internet of Things, not Things on the Internet
We're off on holiday at the end of the week, and in the last minute "what have we forgotten" hubbub of the weekend we realised that our UK driving licenses and passports would not be enough to hire a car at our destination. So this lunchtime I headed out to the nearest Post Office that … Continue reading Analogue memories
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