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Jun 15, 2014

Smart Cities or Home Automation: It’s All About UX

When you walk into my utility room, the lights come on. If it’s dark. The latest evolution in my long term project to make my dumb (but very pretty) old house smart is a rules engine. Every time I step in and my way is lighted, my heart leaps…

Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Aug 18, 2014

The Future of Food? Grow Your Own — Automatically

A few years ago a large food producer commissioned some research on the future of food. It was a PR exercise, designed to produce some interesting, light-hearted stories. Instead what came back was a pretty stark message: we as families and…

Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Mar 11, 2014

Humanoid Robots: The User Interface for the Internet of Things?

Two of my projects are merging. This morning, inspired by a second viewing of Iron Man 3 (yes, I want to be Tony Stark) I finally finished assembling RoboRaspbian. And realised that he should actually be part of Project…

Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Apr 4, 2014

Stratification: Has the Integration vs Specialisation Question Been Answered for Tomorrow’s Business?

In the future, if you want a big and profitable business, are you better served focusing on your core value or owning every step in the supply chain…

Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Jan 21, 2014

Project Santander: Ethernet and REST

WARNING: TECHIE POST. Following my visit to the smart city project in Santander with Telefonica last year, I was inspired to start building my own smart home based on similar technologies. This is partly an exercise of my rusty engineering skills but mostly about…

Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Oct 15, 2014

Bournemouth University: The Future of PR

Bournemouth University invited me along with two of its PR course alumni, Richard Fogg from CC Group and Sam Hall from Oracle, to give talks on the future of PR to its undergraduates. I decided to tackle the broader jobs market that they would be entering as…

Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Jan 3, 2014

The Future of Giving: It’s The Thought That Counts

In December I spoke at the second Manchester Sunday Assembly, a gathering for people who recognise the great things a church can offer but aren’t so keen on the supernatural. If you haven’t been I can highly recommend it. There are groups…

Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

May 14, 2014

The New Digital Divide: Makers and Consumers

I have a new laptop, at least for the length of this trial. The team at Dell have loaned me an XPS and I have to say it’s flippin’ awesome. OK I don’t have to say that — it wouldn’t be much of a trial if I did — but it’s true.

Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Jan 2, 2014

Project Santander: How a Smart City Inspired a Smart Home Project

In October I visited Santander, Europe’s most advanced smart city laboratory, courtesy of the project lead Telefonica Digital. The city has a grid of 12,000 sensors feeding the local government information about…

Tom Cheesewright in Book of the Future

Jan 4, 2014

Project Santander Test One: Capture Sensor Data and Send Wirelessly

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