Bill Gates famously pointed out that “we always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.” I’ve been focused on the two year future for so long that sometimes the ten year future creeps up on me.
Our friend Simon Oliver draws [...]
Entries from August 2006
Catching up with the Future
August 5th, 2006 by Mat Morrison · 2 Comments
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Google Earth 1085
August 4th, 2006 by Mat Morrison · No Comments
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The Domesday Book has gone online at the National Archives website. Which means that it’s doing better than the 1986 version.
Modern antiques
August 3rd, 2006 by Mat Morrison · 5 Comments
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Having a conversation with Mark Hancock, strategy director at Proximity yesterday, the subject of business cards came up (being in start-up mode, we don’t actually have cards yet.) Mark (no doubt to put us at our ease) pointed out that they probably were a thing of the past.
Now, I subscribe to this idea. For the [...]