Notes on what's happened, what's happening now and what will happen next.
Read More"'The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history and to try and catch on to his coattails as he marches past'. How inevitable is technology, and how much is luck and great leadership?
Read MoreAs mobile starts to move towards saturation, what's next? Cars? AI? And where's the Dell of mobile?
Read MoreA technology often produces its best results just when it's ready to be replaced - it's the best it's ever been, but it's also the best it could ever be. There's no room for more optimisation - the technology has run its course and it's time for something new, and any further attempts at optimisation produce something that doesn't make much sense.
Read MoreYou can divide the world into people who think VR is part of the future and people who haven't had the demo yet. After that, though, the clarity ends - the state of VR now can be seen more than anything else as a list of questions - an 'idea maze' of possibilities.
Read MoreChat bots tap into two very current preoccupations. On one hand, the hope that they can actually work is a reflection of the ongoing explosion of AI, and on the other, they offer a way to reach users without having to get them to install an app.
Read MoreAs machine learning becomes the new thing, a lot more people have to know a lot more about it very quickly.
Read MoreIf mobile reaches everyone on earth, how can it be disrupted? Perhaps instead, our attention moves elsewhere.
Read MoreWhat did mobile look like before the iPhone, what did we think was going to happen, and what does that tell us about predicting the future?
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