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Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Dec 14, 2006

BOTF Around the World

It seems I’m not the only person inspired by the Usborne series of books about the future. For those of you who also feel a little nostalgic about them, here’s a collection of links to the Usborne BOTF community. Please feel free to add your own, or others as you find them.

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Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Dec 11, 2006

Has Apple Had Its Day?

Apple continues to ride high. After years in the doldrums, the resurrection orchestrated by Steve Jobs has been nigh-on miraculous in both scale and longevity. But how long can it last?

The iPod continues to dominate the portable music player market with its slick branding, cool looks…

Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Nov 29, 2006

A Turbine On Every Roof

Scenario A
Imagine a salesman came to your door and offered you a wind turbine. It would bolt on to your house, generate part of the electricity you use and reduce your bills accordingly. And, of course, it would be good for the environment. All he wants for it is £2,500.

Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Dec 21, 2006

Fat Clients

Anyone who uses my marketing services, please don’t take offence. I’m not talking about you.

The title refers to that age-old debate about thin clients and fat clients that ten years ago raised the blood pressure of executives throughout IT-land . Thin clients are just simple machines that allow you to…

Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Dec 6, 2006

Why Fi?

Manchester is apparently planning the UK’s largest Wi-Fi hotspot. The RFI for the project only actually mentions WiFi once, but it is much easier to tell the papers about a giant hotspot than to try and explain a mixed-media, multi-service, metro area IP network.

But once you get past the record-breaker hype…

Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Dec 23, 2006

Back to TV 3.0

Just a short one this…or at least that’s the plan. Just read an article on YouTube in the latest issue of Wired magazine.

In drawing his conclusion, the author of this piece references all the lost titans of the dotcom boom (goes the dynamite) and wonders whether YouTube’s sale price ($1.6bn) was…

Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Dec 27, 2006

Food for Thought

It has been a very foody morning. First a big leftovers breakfast reading Nigel Slater’s enthusiastic descriptions of Christmas lunch preparation from last Sunday’s Observer. Then slumping in a chair, loaded with bubble and squeak, to watch a bit of Jamie Oliver.

It was a rerun of Jamie’s tour of…

Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Nov 27, 2006

One Small Step…

So I’m a blogger. Having been using computers and some form of the internet and its predecessors for around twenty years, I’m finally posting my own thoughts up here instead of reading other people’s. But that’s enough about me…on to the first thought.

Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Dec 1, 2006

Thirty Miles Per Hour

Early in the 19th century, some people genuinely believed that if a human travelled over thirty miles per hour their head would fall off. Cartoonists depicted what they expected to happen when the first trains cracked this mythical speed. No doubt newspapers jumped on the bandwagon and…

Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Dec 17, 2006

The Answer to Our Green Transport Needs

I covered 360 miles in a round trip on Friday and Saturday. In spite of all my environmental guilt, I drove. Why? Simple economics.

The choice was pretty stark. Taking the train would have meant leaving at 22:55 on the Thursday night and travelling for over…

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