Fiji water – endlessly fascinating
Three years ago, I got fascinated by the phenomenon of Fiji Water. I couldn’t believe that it made economic sense to ship heavy bottles of… Read More »Fiji water – endlessly fascinating
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Incremental infrastructure, or how mobile phones might wire Africa
One of the consequences (intended or otherwise) of the TED Global conferencein Arusha, Tanzania last month is that many of the bloggers I read regularly… Read More »Incremental infrastructure, or how mobile phones might wire Africa
The retro mobile phone?
I make a lousy futurist, and an even worse cool-hunter. (Trust me. If you’ve ever seen how I dress, you’ll understand that I have absolutely… Read More »The retro mobile phone?
Visualizing migration
Listen to some of the more overheated rhetoric in America about immigration – Lou Dobbs, perhaps, or Representative Tom Tancredo, who is running a long-shot… Read More »Visualizing migration
World Economic Forum: towards an electranet?
One of the morning’s sessions at the World Economic Forum’s meeting in Cape Town promised to address a topic I’ve been thinking about the past… Read More »World Economic Forum: towards an electranet?
Big ideas at the World Economic Forum, Cape Town
If this morning’s session had moments that reminded me of the hyper-optimism of TED, a session this afternoon on risk on the African continent had… Read More »Big ideas at the World Economic Forum, Cape Town