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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...
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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...
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Measuring the Digital Economy
When the UK still had an automobile industry, there was a standard joke about the manufacture of the Morris Mini...
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Media Maketh Man?
What do Martin Luther, the sixteenth century monk who fermented the Reformation across Europe in the sixteenth century, Emmanuel Macron,...
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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...
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A New Mercantilism?
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping seem to have something in common, despite the showman image of the former and the...
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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...
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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...
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Unthoughtful Emotions
The Financial Times, 5th November 2016, led its Life & Arts supplement with an interview with an American fascist of...
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Going Up in Smoke
Smartphones are exploding into flames. This guy was fortunate. It burnt a hole in his pocket and the phone dropped...
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Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicle are driverless vehicles, vehicles that are basically robots. Singapore has stolen a lead by introducing the first test...
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Fishing or Phishing
Fishing or Phishing ‘We are living in interesting times’: so goes the cryptic Chinese observation, which is really a warning...
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Brexit or Fixet
Brexit or Fixet “In a nutshell, the referendum is a watershed in two related trends: the rising clout of anti-establishment...
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Narcissus Technologies Trump Everything?
Narcissus Technologies Trump Everything? Think of a Narcissus these days and the name Donald Trump is never far away. In...
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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...
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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...
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Upsetting the Applecart
Donald Trump called for a boycott, although only after he had “just thought of it.”[1] Bill Gates, initially at least,...
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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...
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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...
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Cyber Santa
Families who celebrate Christmas have long got use to Santa Claus arriving with his sack full of toys for the...
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Is Cybersecurity an Oxymoron?
Many years ago I lived in one of the less secure, less affluent parts of London. It was a neighbourhood...