Pragmatist

I've been involved in tech since the mid-90s, have experienced the rise and burst of many 'bubbles', and have been writing about...

You would be forgiven for uttering a very long string of properly ripe expletives on learning that the current UK government has the chee...

Recent issues concerning the purchase of lethal materials online, "fake news" and secure messaging highlight a growing tension ...

I was at a 'parliamentary roundtable' on Tuesday on the perennial topic of small business banking reform. A more official report ...

A slightly dispiriting day at The Alan Turing Institute 'Financial Summit', yesterday, I'm afraid to say.  The ATI itsel...

Professor Nick Bostrom delivered an inspirational speech for the SCL last night on "Superintelligence: a godsend or a doomsday devic...

In Part 2 of my response to Google's 'computers vs people' meme , I explained that humans can win the war for economic con...

There's been a lot of heat rising from Google CEO Eric Schmidt's recent assertions about a "race between computers and peopl...