We customers just sit back and let the torrent of astonishing cheap electronic devices keep coming, each generation more wonderful than the last. It’s all down to Moore’s Law: crudely speaking, the idea that every two years or so the amount of computer bang you get for your buck in fact […]
The BBC website is asking weird questions: How can the future of oil prices be stabilised? What are the alternatives? Does the problem lie with consumers or providers? What is the ‘problem’ here? What is the point of ‘stabilising’ the price of anything? A price is a piece of information […]
Alert readers of this Blog will have spotted that there is a new link along the top, namely to an essay I have written about Amazon Space. This piece is an attempt to pull together various themes of international politics and the impact thereon of surging IT-driven integration: The world has […]
This reminds us all about the famous Drake equation: N=N*fp ne fl fi fc fL Where N is the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy; fp is the fraction with planets; ne is the number of planets per star capable of supporting life; fl is the fraction of planets […]
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao urges rich Western countries to abandon their ‘unsustainable’ way of life, so as to respond to Climate Change. Hmm. China has long resisted calls to join rich nations in setting targets for emissions cuts, saying its relatively low per capita emissions and recent emergence as a […]
Via an agitated Guido, more on seeming collectivist anxiety about the impact in High Places of personal freedom . Namely Culture Secretary Andy Burnham: The time has come for perhaps a different approach to the internet," he said. "I want to even up that see-saw, even up the regulation [imbalance] […]
Katherine Whitehorn’s ramblings against competition as somehow juxtaposed against ‘action for the common good’ miss one other vital effect of competition, namely its tendency to incentivise frugal use of resources. We hear all the time sundry collectivists urging the idea that capitalism and competition are uniquely wasteful of resources and environmentally […]
Looking at the FCO website on the David Miliband Blog page is this curious list of links (presumably there to indicate Mr Miliband’s own inclinations) to non-government sites: New media and e-government Whitehall Webby Digital Dialogues Simon Dickson Stuart Bruce David Wilcox eDemocracy Update The Obvious? Emma Mulqueeny Personal South Shields Gazette […]
This report as picked up by Iain Dale and others asserts that: Internet users will be protected from abusive bloggers and malicious Facebook postings under proposals to set up an independent internet watchdog, The Daily Telegraph has learnt. The body, made up of industry representatives, would be responsible for drawing […]
Because it allows massive direct hits on Utter Fatheadedness, and then documents carefully the attempts of the fatheads to cover their tracks, giving millions of people hours of amusement watching it all. Never thought I’d say it, but the time has come to vote SNP. Anything but this.
