I’ve written a piece for Silicon on Random Walks in the future office.
The central idea is that the future office is about creativity rather than productivity, and that encouraging random walks is a great way of stimulating that creativity.
The article is on Silicon over here and shown below:
Random Walk theory is a funny little idea drawn [...]

I’ve been thinking about where technology innovation might come from, in the current economic shambles. I’d love to tip some obscure little start-up to shake the world with a brilliant idea, but the truth is that I expect Google to be at the heart of innovation in the next few years. It’s a boxing match [...]

Fascinated to read about an impending web launch which could revolutionise how we conduct research online. It won’t replace it, but it could be every bit as important as Google.
Wolfram Alpha is an online service from Wolfram Research and will launch in May. It’s a computational knowledge engine; You ask it question and it works [...]

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 [...]