Tag archive: justathought
FT Letter: Utility-style regulation is a way to curb Big Tech
Image: Alfred E Kahn © Walt Disney Television via Getty From John Ure, Director TRPC, Singapore, Fellow of the Centre...
Just a Last Thought
“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” (The more things change, the more they stay the same) All good...
Measuring the Digital Economy
When the UK still had an automobile industry, there was a standard joke about the manufacture of the Morris Mini...
Media Maketh Man?
What do Martin Luther, the sixteenth century monk who fermented the Reformation across Europe in the sixteenth century, Emmanuel Macron,...
Time to Retreat?
Is nothing safe! From next month, Singapore’s civil servants will be disconnected from the Internet.[1] And then connected again using...
A New Mercantilism?
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping seem to have something in common, despite the showman image of the former and the...
Bring Back the Robots
“iPhone manufacturer Foxconn plans to replace almost every human worker with robots: China’s iPhone factories are being automated.” So read...
A Connected Christmas?
Just this week I came across this fascinating pre-Christmas post on Yougotobejoking.com. “Get connected this Christmas. That’s the message coming...
Unthoughtful Emotions
The Financial Times, 5th November 2016, led its Life & Arts supplement with an interview with an American fascist of...
Going Up in Smoke
Smartphones are exploding into flames. This guy was fortunate. It burnt a hole in his pocket and the phone dropped...
Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicle are driverless vehicles, vehicles that are basically robots. Singapore has stolen a lead by introducing the first test...
Fishing or Phishing
Fishing or Phishing ‘We are living in interesting times’: so goes the cryptic Chinese observation, which is really a warning...
Brexit or Fixet
Brexit or Fixet “In a nutshell, the referendum is a watershed in two related trends: the rising clout of anti-establishment...
Narcissus Technologies Trump Everything?
Narcissus Technologies Trump Everything? Think of a Narcissus these days and the name Donald Trump is never far away. In...
Sex and the City and the Internet of Things
Sex sells. That is pretty well established and widely known. Sex sells for money and it sells products. The former...
If it’s broke, don’t fix it?
The Bangladesh Bank heist in March 2016 netted USD81 million when fake transfer requests were wired to the Federal Reserve...
Upsetting the Applecart
Donald Trump called for a boycott, although only after he had “just thought of it.”[1] Bill Gates, initially at least,...
What Goes Around, Comes Around
Marvin Minsky died in January 2016. He was the outstanding forerunner of research and development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in...
Ringing in the New Year
Here’s the thing about payphones: if by error you have left your mobile phone at home, making a call will...
Cyber Santa
Families who celebrate Christmas have long got use to Santa Claus arriving with his sack full of toys for the...
Is Cybersecurity an Oxymoron?
Many years ago I lived in one of the less secure, less affluent parts of London. It was a neighbourhood...