There have been a lot (a lot) of articles written about life after the COVID19 pandemic, and there are no doubt a lot more to come (like this one). Some are fairly prosaic, others imagine radical changes to our way of life. They all reflect the existing biases of their…

Some Burberry products are showing up with high-quality 3D models in Google search results. Burberry is, as far as I know, the first brand in the UK to take advantage of the AR search feature that Google announced back in May last year. …

These are the quotes I read in 2019 that I felt were worth saving and sharing. The quotes aren’t necessarily from sources published last year, but they were new to me. I also sneaked in one from 2020. — Humanity We have an extraordinary superpower as humans, which is to see with our eyes closed. Chris Ware Intelligence and stupidity are not just traits; they are practices, or habits. Being intelligent is one thing; staying intelligent another. The brightest minds can dim themselves over time through dogma and laziness.

From AR to Synthetic Media, via Smart Assistants and 5G; a few things I think are worth keeping an eye on in the year ahead. — At the start of each new year I like to clarify my thoughts by writing about a few things I think are worth keeping an eye on in the year ahead. They’re not predictions; I’m not a futurist. In previous years I’ve described these as trends, but they’re better thought…

Thoughtful Net #69: curated links from the past week — For a supposed ‘more than monthly’ publication, this is actually the first time that I’ve managed to send two editions out in the same month since October last year. Mind you, I’ve only managed to do that by keeping it down to six stories. I’ve not had much time to…

Thoughtful Net #68: curated links from the past few weeks — I don’t know quite how this happened, but I appear to have forgotten to publish this edition. I wrote the content below over six weeks ago, and was just preparing to write a new edition when I realised that I hadn’t sent this one yet. Ugh. I’m getting old. Charles…

Thoughtful Net #67: curated links from the past week — Last year I bought a Pixel 3 and its wireless-charging dock, the Pixel Stand. When the phone is docked the stand can make it act like a digital photo frame, displaying at a set interval photos that it’s selected from your Google Photos account using some kind of ‘interestingness’ algorithm…

A short note about process — For the last couple of years part of my job has been to keep my colleagues and employer up to date on technology trends; to make sure that everyone knows the moves in the technology landscape, and to try to follow trends in the market to help the company position…