Usually I don’t get out of bed for anything less than 1% mortality rates. Harsh as that might sound, there are enough 1% problems to be working on that I do not usually focus on less lethal stuff. However, over the past month or so in London I’ve come to the conclusion that there is [...]
Read more →There are three kinds of people: snacks, trolls and bastards. Snacks are people without strong personal competence or will. Trolls are people with strong personal competence, but without social status. Many computer programmers and engineers are trolls. They live in caves. Bastards are people with strong personal competence and high social status. Bastards who speak [...]
Read more →Feed the World We live in an age of scientific and technological advancement that was almost unimaginable only a few generations ago. From mobile telephones to the Large Hadron Collider, human know-how and ingenuity is deeper, more widespread and disseminates faster than at any time in history. However, despite our vast knowledge almost 900 million [...]
Read more →USA Today reports on the 26 million newly jobless Chinese people leaving the industrial cities of the Pearl River Delta and returning home to rural villages in the provinces, and of the strain this is putting on Chinese society. For Lei Sanjun, 25, who spent seven years making sneakers in the coastal factory city of [...]
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Read more →Mark Charmer discussing twitter, ICT and water. Me on the future of poverty for Agit8. This is probably the best thing I’ve written.
Read more →Pretty good representation of what I actually do these days. Fun!
Read more →Click to Play http://www.inamo-restaurant.com Deeply cyberpunk, really. There’s also a big downstairs with more cybertables and a cool bar. Splendid.
Read more →So I’ve been thinking a lot over the past few months about video production – about production values, and about the simple fact that the world is turning into one great big networked camera with 5.8 billion lenses and one archive. In this environment, I think we need some new ways of thinking about media. [...]
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