I just got back from Venice. My first time. Changed! Firstly, wow, what a location for a gathering of such wonderful minds. I spent three days pinching myself that I was there and that I was part of such a brilliant story. Last year I was asked to speak at…

Four months ago, 20 people met in a secret location in London to discuss our online selves. To voice in private worries about who’ve become, or who we are becoming. Then last month 35 of us met to continue the discussion. The next time we meet there’ll be 50. You…

As statistics swirl and change on an almost daily basis, the role that technology plays in human life is becoming an increasingly urgent question. …

In 2018 there were so many discussions about Ai, and its infusion into the world around us, that it all blurred into one big online narrative on the topic. We started to accept that Data was the driving force behind huge technical changes, and challenges, and we also began to…

In 1864 computing pioneer Charles Babbage wrote; “On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out? I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.” …

Humans communicate with each other using a dazzling variety of methods, each differing from the next in innumerable ways. Within those communities of communication, prevalent in every culture are stories, parables, and archetypes that attempt to make our abstract fears seem tangible. These stories and characters shape the way we…

Over the last month or two, I’ve put my head together with the brilliant members of the BIMA Ai Think Tank, to bring you a list of the 100 people we think are shaping the conversation around Ai. For context, we’ve chose the people who are right at the coalface……

13th July 1993–7th April 2018 Since James passed away, I’ve been trying to find a fitting word to describe our very special friend. I spoke to friends and family, I went back over conversations we’d had with each other, and one particular word kept popping into my head — Titan. Now you might think…

This is the opening chapter from my book “Hippo — The Human Focused Digital Book” which is available to buy now on all Amazon Platforms. ‘He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.’ Friedrich Nietzsche We don’t create, we discover. Mostly we discover what is already…