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The Devolution of the Desk
I saw this video about “the evolution of the desk” the other day, via the Harvard Innovation Lab (it’s from Best Reviews here). It takes you through how all the things that used to sit on a desk now...
View ArticleComputer, remember this…
I’ve been retelling an anecdote from IBM’s speech-to-text experiments recently, and couldn’t remember where I’d got it… and indeed, I couldn’t remember if it was even true, as happens when you retell...
View ArticleFroebel’s Gifts for The Internet
Over the past few days, after John first introduced the topic to me last week, I have been looking in to Froebel’s Gifts. For those of you who are unaware of Froebel’s gifts, they are a series of...
View ArticleFanfare For The Common Brand
I’m fresh out of presenting the below for the first time at the latest intake of Squared. For the last two years, I’ve presented various iterations of ‘Are Brands Fracking The Social Web?’, but over...
View ArticleHow To Start Being A Common Brand
I finished and presented the “Fanfare for the Common Brand” presentation yesterday, about 150 yards out from the train station. I presented it 45 minutes later. Afterwards, Fraser and I talked about...
View ArticleSlap Dash: quick reactions to the Amazon Button
There are many better places to read about the new Amazon Dash button, launched yesterday. One such place is Matt Webb’s excellent (and as he calls them) ‘raw’ thoughts on what it means from an IoT...
View ArticleMany Is Greater Than One
Many > One. Yep, of course it is. And no, I’m not just trolling maths geeks. Last week I delivered an updated version of my new talk for this year on the Google Squared talent accelerator programme....
View ArticleThis Week In Barcelona…
Right now, I’m holed up in a lovely little AirBnB in Gràcia in Barcelona, a self-proclaimed ‘writers apartment’, which to be honest does live up to its claim. It’s a perfect spot for sitting and...
View ArticledConstruct 2015: Metadesign For Murph
I’m thrilled and honoured to be talking at dConstruct this year. It’s one of the highlights of the year for me, and so many friends, that to be asked to speak there is… well, it’s a complex emotional...
View ArticleConceptual Strategy for Intranets
I know, that’s a rock and roll blog post title, eh? A short video, explaining something that Chris, Mark and I worked on a while ago for a client, but that came back round again today when someone...
View ArticleWorking Out How The Internet Works
I did a wee talk at the fabulous IAM 2016 conference in Barcelona. In it’s second year, and conceived and run by Andres & Lucy of Wabisabi Lab, it’s the kind of weird experimental conference that...
View ArticleDesigning The Future: Tues 21st June
This June, during London Technology Week, I’ve been invited to give a talk over at Loft Digital on Designing The Future. It’s been about a year since I started a track of thinking and doing on this...
View ArticleMetastrategy – Movement, Loops and Layers – Video
I was very excited to be invited to Oslo to give the final keynote of the Webdagene conference. It’s one of my favourite cities, and the speaker line-up was immense too – you should check out all of...
View ArticleThe Time Capsule Retrieval Service
We’ve recently been working with the Emerging Technologies team at The Royal Society, for a conference they put on for their Fellowship. The purpose of the conference was twofold; to introduce the...
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