This is the latest in a very sporadic set of posts I’ve done comparing the world of today to that of the role-playing book Cyberpunk 2020.

This time around good news comes from a new exoskeleton that allows paraplegics to walk again, while in the other direction…

The Listserve is an email list currently made up of about 22,000 subscribers. Anyone can join and every day someone is picked at random to write a short piece on any topic they choose. Three days later their submission is sent to everyone on…

As per my previous blog post I recently attended the one-year-on gathering for the Digital Democracy Commission at Portcullis House. The most obvious thing missing from that session was any discussion of electronic voting for elections. This was especially odd since the initial report stated that…

As ever good geek know in the beginning was the command-line. Back before these young ‘uns and their ‘windows’ and their ‘desktops’ everything was done by typing commands into a lovely green screen terminal. As is so often the case, everything old is new again — but this time…

Even though it’s a few months old I only recently came across this press release about British turban wearing Sikhs now being officially exempt from having to wear any headgear usually associated with any job. This includes items connected to health and safety such as protective helmets on…

If you’re the kind of person who reads my blog there’s a fair chance that you’ve heard of the Investigatory Powers bill. If not, I suggest you read up about it. It’s a proposed piece of UK legislation for the bulk recording and storage of personal communications data for security purposes. This blog…

The UK Parliament Digital Democracy Commission published its report Open Up in January 2015 following a year of consultation and deliberation. I have…