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Digging digitally at the intersection of consumption and creativity
It was a Sunday in May and, if we wanted the beans to the grow, it was time they were in the ground. So I found myself on the windswept allotment, under the big white clouds and blue of a Norfolk sky, digging over that patch of ground which had be…
Video: Dr Norman Lewis’ #mexsession looks beyond apps to the macro challenges facing digital industry
Lewis draws on lessons from history to remind participants of the huge challenges still facing humanity and to recognise the limitations of the individual digital developments generating buzz in the short term. His talk goes on to look at how the …
Of batteries, startup culture & things which fall on your head
Dan Hill published this wonderful, roaming essay which begins with the expectations of the caricatured, generic product launch and goes on to explore the real, user-centred implications of developments like Tesla’s Powerwall batteries.
As startu…
A different perspective at Future of Wireless
The Future of Wireless International Conference (FWIC – 23/24 June 2015) is expanding to the Emirates Stadium in London following 6 years in Cambridge. I’ve participated several times in the past and always found it provides rewarding insight int…
Evolving digital language, as seen on TV
‘As seen on TV’ is one of those phrases commonplace enough to feel like a natural part of our phraseology. It was new once, though, and there will come a time when it is old and its meaning obscured by the mists of time.
Walking past a superma…
Technology for an ageing congregation
This advertisement for a local congregation to avail themselves of ‘Rob the computer expert’s’ knowledge intrigues me on a number of levels. On the one hand, it implies we live in an age where access to technology is something under the purview o…
The scrappy reality of operators’ customer service
I’ll admit I was surprised and disappointed when she took out a tatty ring bound folder – the kind one might have used to hold one’s school notes in the 1980s – and ran her finger down the plastic covering of a printed spreadsheet. “£53 a month fo…
Experiencing the Apple Watch at retail
The Apple Watch occupied about 20 times more floorspace than the new MacBook when I visited the company’s Regent Street store in April 2015. The Watch’s display units stretch the full width of the store and are the first things a customer sees upo…