Pragmatist

Sixteen years on from my own initial posts on the subject of a personal assistant that can privately find and buy stuff for you on the web, ...

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 ...

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

I've been a bit absent from these pages of late, partly pulling together SCL's Technology Law Futures Conference in June on '...

Source: Financial Times Like Google's declaration of war on the human race , the news that Twitter will buy Gnip illustrates why s...

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...

Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt finally admitted yesterday something that the likes of Jaron Lanier have been warning us about for some ...

Jaron Lanier , the computer scientist and writer, has been busy explaining that we need to reward each person for the data they reveal o...

In November 2007 it seemed clear that facilitators like Google and Amazon would capitalise on their alignment with their customers'...

These guys have a real job to do in Barcelona

Hypothesis: the rising cost of car insurance is actually driven by marketing costs. Gross premiums have increased 14% in the past year , and...

Today I presented again on 'Behavioural Targeting of Online Advertising', this time at the 5th Annual Online Research Conference in...

A hat tip to Mark Nepstad for pointing out Chris Perry's article on the challenge for any established business trying to leverage the s...

Hat-tip to none other than EU Commissioner Meglena Kuneva, whose recent post alerted me to the report of the McKinsey Global Institute on ...

I'm very much looking forward to a balanced, impartial, rational presentation of my balanced, impartial and rational - and very much per...

By the end of Phorm's " 2nd Town Hall Meeting " it became obvious that the company is still trying to launch a product with bo...