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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...

13 Oct 2020 Opinion
FT Letter: Utility-style regulation is a way to curb Big Tech
Just a Last Thought

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...

1 Jul 2017 Reports
Measuring the Digital Economy

Measuring the Digital Economy

When the UK still had an automobile industry, there was a standard joke about the manufacture of the Morris Mini...

1 May 2017 Reports
Media Maketh Man?

Media Maketh Man?

What do Martin Luther, the sixteenth century monk who fermented the Reformation across Europe in the sixteenth century, Emmanuel Macron,...

1 Apr 2017 Reports
Time to Retreat?

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...

1 Mar 2017 Reports
A New Mercantilism?

A New Mercantilism?

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping seem to have something in common, despite the showman image of the former and the...

1 Feb 2017 Reports
Bring Back the Robots

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...

1 Jan 2017 Reports
A Connected Christmas?

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...

1 Dec 2016 Reports
Unthoughtful Emotions

Unthoughtful Emotions

The Financial Times, 5th November 2016, led its Life & Arts supplement with an interview with an American fascist of...

1 Nov 2016 Reports
Going Up in Smoke

Going Up in Smoke

Smartphones are exploding into flames. This guy was fortunate. It burnt a hole in his pocket and the phone dropped...

1 Oct 2016 Reports
Autonomous Vehicles

Autonomous Vehicles

Autonomous vehicle are driverless vehicles, vehicles that are basically robots. Singapore has stolen a lead by introducing the first test...

1 Sep 2016 Reports
Fishing or Phishing

Fishing or Phishing

Fishing or Phishing ‘We are living in interesting times’: so goes the cryptic Chinese observation, which is really a warning...

1 Aug 2016 Reports
Brexit or Fixet

Brexit or Fixet

Brexit or Fixet “In a nutshell, the referendum is a watershed in two related trends: the rising clout of anti-establishment...

1 Jul 2016 Opinion
Narcissus Technologies Trump Everything?

Narcissus Technologies Trump Everything?

Narcissus Technologies Trump Everything? Think of a Narcissus these days and the name Donald Trump is never far away. In...

1 Jun 2016 Reports
Sex and the City and the Internet of Things

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...

1 May 2016 Reports
If it’s broke, don’t fix it?

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...

1 Apr 2016 Reports
Upsetting the Applecart

Upsetting the Applecart

Donald Trump called for a boycott, although only after he had “just thought of it.”[1] Bill Gates, initially at least,...

1 Mar 2016 Reports
What Goes Around, Comes Around

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...

1 Feb 2016 Reports
Ringing in the New Year

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...

1 Jan 2016 Reports
Cyber Santa

Cyber Santa

Families who celebrate Christmas have long got use to Santa Claus arriving with his sack full of toys for the...

1 Dec 2015 Reports
Is Cybersecurity an Oxymoron?

Is Cybersecurity an Oxymoron?

Many years ago I lived in one of the less secure, less affluent parts of London. It was a neighbourhood...

1 Nov 2015 Reports