Tag archive: justathought
Migration: A Digital Road Ahead
“One Facebook group called ‘Stations of the forced wanderers’, which has more than 100,000 members, is essentially a vast knowledge...
Brave New World of Data?
“Octopus sold personal data of customers for HK$44”’ was the headline in the South China Morning Post, 27th July 2010....
RoboShop
Welcome to Pepper. Pepper will be your close companion, enjoying your jokes, sympathizing when you are sad, keeping quiet when...
Technology and a Shrinking Middle Class?
No-one doubts that the rise of the middle class globally has fuelled the demand for consumer goods of all kinds;...
Droning On, and On
From the postal stage coach to the telegraph, to the telephone, to the Internet it’s been a long haul, and...
False Alarms
When in the 1990s I was researching the impact of technological change on the Hong Kong Telephone Company (HKTC) over...
Everyone Going Bananas in April?
This is not the usual, slightly sceptical blog that sees the hype but not the reality. This time, for a...
Sex, Lies and Videotape
Sex is not just reproductive, is also productive which is why in some countries, such as the UK, its service...
Artificial Intelligence
It’s a perennial topic, Artificial Intelligence (AI). Concerns about where science and technology are leading society are never ending. The...
Christmas Cake Anyone?
By any standards, Bill Gates is the epitome of the superrich. It took 7 years to construct Bill Gates’ mansion...
Net Neutrality Revisited
Telecom broadband networks that provide fast lane access to the Internet need to be managed, and even more so than...
Theoretical Pragmatism
And this year the Nobel Prize for economics goes to: Jean Tirole, Professor of Economics at the University of Toulouse...
Let Me Say That Again
Apple has finally joined the NFC bandwagon. Let me say that again. Apple is redefining mobile payments. Better? I cannot...
Partners in Development
“Telenor cracks down on Myanmar suppliers to weed out child labour” was a headline in the Financial Times 20 August...
Accounting for Kowtow? You can Bank on it!
It was May 1989. I had arrived in January in Hong Kong as a visiting research fellow at the University...
Move Uber Please
In a benign Internet world, the emergence of a “caring, sharing” economy would be something to look forward to. For...
KingCanute.com
Like most children I learned from my school days that the Philistines were, well Philistines, which they were not; that...
Trust
Fewer, if not few, people have much trust in the banking and financial system after recent experiences of inter-bank rate...
The World Wide Crimea?
What do Crimea and the Internet have in common? They have both become the terrain of political struggle. And the...
WhatsUpp?
WhatsApp is up, by USD19 billion all told. Why? Why did Facebook pay more than the nominal GDP of 84...
End of the Age of Innocence
2013 was a Year of Revelations. Of those that will have recurring repercussions, the revelations of Edward Snowden must take...