I was on the radio yesterday: A general chat about what the future might look like. You can hear it on iPlayer here - Skip straight to 1 hour 19 minutes in.
 
It came out quite well I think - A little scattergun maybe, but then it’s mainstream radio so it was never going to be [...]

I’m a freelance, mobile worker, and I’m always on the look-out for alternative workspaces around London. In fact London is particularly well served for such spaces, with two branches of the co-operative workspace The Hub, eOffice and the club-like Institute of Directors workspace all located within the city. I was told a while ago, though [...]

Really interesting front page in The Independent today. A group of environmentalists have come together to suggest that actually nuclear power might be a vital part of our response to climate change. Tabloids call it a U-Turn, broadsheets call it a Damascene Conversion and both are sneering responses to the reasonable human activity of changing [...]

I did a radio recording last week. Only local radio; BBC Radio Newcastle. It goes out at the end of the week.
 
It’s funny; I had a real crisis of confidence before going on. I was billed as a “Futurist”, and as soon as I heard I’d been trailed the day before using that term, I [...]

I wrote a post last week decrying the low standard of web reporting and analysis. At the heart of the issue as I see it is that print media, with its paid investigative journalists and institutional editorial standards, can’t simply be replaced by an army of news-blogging, bedroom-based bigots with bizarre views (my phrase, so [...]

I ranted a bit yesterday. I feel a bit more sanguine today. Actually, the internet is the best thing since sliced bread.
 
While it’s true that idiotic comment and analysis can sit on a level platform with professional, balanced insight and analysis, there is another way to see it: To borrow a line from Stephen Fry; [...]

Hear are some of my beliefs:
1. September 11th was carried out by a group of Islamic terrorists, not by the US government. The towers fell down because planes hit them.
2. Diana Princess of Wales died because the guy driving the car mixed drink and drugs and drove too fast
3. Man landed on [...]

I love Facebook. Really, I love it. And the truth is, I’ll probably check my profile three times in the time it takes me to write this apparently seamless post.
 
I could probably craft a post linking social networks to the future of work; collaboration in the virtual realm, facilitating extra and inter-corporate connections, helping to [...]

Everyone talks about the ‘Work/Life balance’, and the effect which always-on technology can have on our hours of work. I tend to argue that new technologies and employee expectations of flexibility will ultimate drive working patterns which suit us.
But what if it’s much worse than that? An altogether more pessimistic view suggests that some future [...]

Don Knuth is a professor of Computational Science at Stanford. As an academic, he first started using email back in 1975. Beat that. But he gave up in 1990, because “email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me, my role is [...]