15Mb: another blog from David G.W. Birch

Twitter Updates for 2008-08-26

August 26, 2008 – 11:59 pm

@victoriajane Don’t get too fraught, it’s only a web site, not anything important #
@ruskin147 Came over well on the 10 o’clock. #
Have just agreed to take no.1 son and friends to his first “unattended” pop concert. Who on earth are Enter Shikari? #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-25

August 25, 2008 – 11:59 pm

Enjoyed the Channel 4 show about banks. #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-24

August 24, 2008 – 11:59 pm

@charlesarthur It works visually, try it. #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-23

August 23, 2008 – 11:59 pm

Going to visit Mum and take no.2 son to watch The Robins — and the sun is shining! #
@charlesarthur Glen Miller is still missing #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-22

August 22, 2008 – 11:59 pm

Off to Thorpe Park (for the first time in my life) #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-21

August 21, 2008 – 11:59 pm

Another life milestone — one of my children now has a GCSE (Proud Dad Footnote: an A, no less!) #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-20

August 20, 2008 – 11:59 pm

@bowbrick Really? What’s he talking about? And who is he? #
@victoriajane I’d assumed that this sort of thing had been banned long ago. #
Channel 4 news… zzz… George Osborne… zzz… hold on, who’s that in front row not paying attention and twittering… it’s @bowbrick! #
Duelling pistols was an Olympic sport in 1906. Some more ways to improve the Olympics… http://tinyurl.com/6jta9d #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-19

August 19, 2008 – 11:59 pm

We’re going to the theatre. In the West End, no less. And we’re going because we know one of the actors… and he got us cheapo tickets. #

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The future is a bit too close

August 19, 2008 – 9:53 am

[Dave Birch] I’m running out of time to think of something interesting to say about the future at a conference I’ve been invited to next month (LIFT 08 in South Korea).

The best futurists take present-day trends in technology and extrapolate from them based on a few fundamentals: that large-scale institutions will keep being slow-witted, that small groups of people are good at learning and adapting to new circumstances, and that death and taxes will always be with us.

[From The future of futurism. - By Reihan Salam - Slate Magazine]

OK, I’ll give it a shot. What are the trends worth extrapolating though? I’ve drawn up a technology roadmap, based on some work I did for a government department a couple of years ago, but nothing much seems to have changed recently: mobile is still the key technology, shaping the environment over the medium and term and I’m pretty sure — based on a couple of other trends — that it will actually become more important over the period I’ll be looking at because of the confluence of mobile and identity.

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