Simon Taylor

“personalised” – what does it mean? Personalised recommendations from Amazon, for example, extrapolate data – just for you – from your existing, past shopping and browsing behaviour on Amazon. As a process, this does not however define the subcategories according to your online activity from which “personalised” suggestions will be drawn. These are

Considering the relationship between the Internet, data, and devices, I can’t help but think about Marshall McLuhan’s ominous words, “The more data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.”With the Internet of Things, that data takes residence in the cloud with various devices

[Netscape’s ex – sold it to AOL – Marc Andreesen, Google CEO Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt,  Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, and other businesspersons and financiers of the Silicon Valley school] all  uniformly emphasized the need for improvements to America’s A) education  system, and B) immigration system. Which is great, because

Andy Hamilton started with a joke. “Turn around folks…” “Isn’t it beeeoootifool!” “Aren’t we lucky to be in this beautiful building. Aren’t we lucky to live in this beautiful city!” As if realising Andy’s mistake, Sir Stephen Tindall addressed the issue with words to the effect

“What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the body of the woman we love.” – quoted here