Dunkirk spirit? ‘Essential services’ will now be redefined
Healthcare and groceries? Obviously essential, but what else? The reality? Name a sector, any sector, and the answer to whether there is anything at all that’s essential about it is…
Why not join an online-only socially-distanced startup?
These are the kind of startups that never require any face to face meetings From the application interview onwards, you will never, ever be expected to be in the same…
Is hosting your app in a proprietary cloud becoming too risky?
Are clients beginning to demand continuity, even in the face of disruption so severe as to potentially undermine the continuity of any hosting service, no matter how large? Even the…
Is this planet’s centralised infrastructure about to be put to the ultimate test?
Even its biggest fans don’t think all decentralisation will be quick or painless, and yet… Nobody, not even the most committed decentralisation enthusiast, underrates the daunting challenges, whether related to…
Neither side gets journalism now
Neither old nor new media have come to terms with what is self-evidently still working and what obviously still needs fixing
Your startup really needs some surprisingly bad new ideas
The more surprisingly bad a new idea seems, the more likely it is that it will be useful, if only because the very fact that it seems as bad as…
The innovator’s crucial non-listicle
I have got it down to a three-point hypothesis followed by ten simple questions
VR platform incompatibility: what if it doesn’t matter?
You might want to check this article again once we have some solid facts about VR software sales. The more you read about the three soon to be released ‘high-end’…
Where journalist skills and innovation meet (and where they don’t)
It’s journalism, but not as we know it. To set the scene for this rather obscure deployment of the journalist’s skills, let’s just take a brief look at exactly where…