Prices of goods are ultimately determined by people’s willingness to pay not simply by their manufacturing cost.
Prices of goods are ultimately determined by people’s willingness to pay not simply by their manufacturing cost.
“I don’t understand how a computer can not function.” That was a comment by Patricia Minchin, a 75 year old nurse who was one of…
I was astonished to receive a report from the Institute for Government, telling us how digital public services will save £46bn. Leave aside my frequent criticisms of…
Europe is, once again, being left behind. The latest frontier in technology development is Artificial Intelligence. Two current trends should worry Europeans. The first is…
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Vinay Gupta is a fascinating man, graduating from developing simple yurts to support refugees anywhere to working out the deeper implications of bitcoin, blockchain technologies…
Electric cars – in fact electric everything – is pushed by the environmental movement as one vital part of the solution to climate change. True,…
It is almost ten years since the publication of one of my best books (I have to say this myself!). It was called Toward the Setting…
I am sitting in a conference listening to a presentation by Luc Tissot, the current CEO of the Tissot watch company in Switzerland. He points…
As I usually do this time of year, I have been leading seminars with some of the annual crop of Darzi fellows, the cadre of…
It was 1975 when consultants at Arthur D Little promised that, within a few short years, technology would deliver the paperless office. We all know…