Category Archives: Comment

The future is in us but may not be us

Written by monkey. Posted on February 24, 2011. Filed under Comment, Social Media, Viral. Tagged , , , , , , , . 2 Comments.
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Mystic Meg tried to predict it. Arthur C. Clarke and HG Wells were intrgued by it. George Orwell nailed it more than he could imagine. The future. How do you pre-empt the next big thing? How do you calculate how people will behave beyond iPads? How do you … Read More →

The Anniversary of the Internet

Written by monkey. Posted on November 12, 2010. Filed under Comment, Digital. Tagged , , . No comments.

I was only 6 and three quarter years old when Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau proposed the idea of a world wide web. At 26, twenty years after their proposal was submitted, the internet has taken over my life. It’s given me a career, it … Read More →

Vote for policies

Written by monkey. Posted on March 29, 2010. Filed under Comment. Tagged , , , , , , , , , . 2 Comments.
At over 8,500 votes, the Green Party are winning the policy vote at voteforpolicies.org.uk

As the UK prepares for what could be one of its most interestingly general elections for some years, there’s been a lot of talk about tactical voting.  The UK’s electoral constituencies and ‘first past the post‘ voting system lends itself to such voting, particularly because the political scene … Read More →

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