A great article on the BBC News site based on a new book, London: The Information Capital  by Dr James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti. The book presents a new collection of data maps of London that demonstrate the power of spatial data.  Some, like the map showing daily commutes, are new great surprise (though beautifully […]

Nicholas Carr on the moral code of automatic vacuum cleaners. It seems that the Roomba automatic vacuum (made by a company called iRobot) suffers a similar dilemma to the automatons conceived in Asimov‘s classic, “I, Robot“.  

a useless box: I want one.

Very cool science.  Dezeen.com features a brief interview with Dutch designer-scientist Daan Roosegarde who plans to replace streetlights with trees.      

The infamous Ellen DeGeneres selfie is not flattering to anyone involved. Seth’s post is spot-on: “You are not plankton.  Neither are your customers.” Read the rest here.

Nicholas Bate poses a vital question…

The Economist’s Schumpeter column, online, publishes this critical comment on its recent special report. Isenberg’s considered and well-reasoned critique argues that the Economist overstates any distinction between “tech startups” and other forms – “Today, every business venture, entrepreneurial or otherwise, requires technology to be competitive, whether it is diamond trading, transportation, construction, or energy.” He […]

Cultural Offering unearths the future…

Here’s a great TED talk from Sophos’s James Lyne on everyday cyber-crime. The scale and professionalism of cyber-crime is eye-popping. As is the extent to which we expose ourselves every day.

Here’s an interesting piece from Computer Weekly – Are businesses turning to Windows Phone instead of BlackBerry? – suggesting that enterprises, as Blackberry continues to shrink, are being attracted to Windows Phone.  Windows Phone has a natural synergy with many enterprises’ Microsoft back-ends. Could this become a sufficiently large beach-head for Windows to capture significant share in […]