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The Weekly Round-Up: 15.08.08
Round-Up Yes, by 2084, abusive drunks or knife-wielding thugs, or possibly a combination of the two, can expect to be dispatched to the cells by a robot on the beat. Sharkey said he expects the streets to be patrolled by robots with "human-like features and... [15 Aug 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Instant delays
Comment Written while flying from London to Greece on BA632 and dispatched from a free wi-fi service in Athens. We can only hope we shall see a return to sanity with the advent of new and leaner operating systems, and efficient code writers guided by sound... [16 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Eating your own dog food
Comment Copy dispatched via a free wi-fi hotel service in Athens. Who decided to put the speakers in the roof instead of at human ear level? If I could be God for a day there are many things I would put right for humanity and planet Earth. [14 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The one-box generation
Comment Written on JetBlue 0038 flying from JFK to Rochester NY, and dispatched via a free hotel wi-fi service. I'd put my money on human stupidity taking over and a PC viewer witch-hunt being declared, along with ISP controls to stop it all and preserve... [26 Mar 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Protestors clueless on wireless health risks
Comment Written in the bar of a London hotel and dispatched via a free wi-fi service from Canary Wharf in the capital's docklands. These inverse distance laws lead to the situation whereby the power entering the human head from a tower is generally less... [04 Mar 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Generation X
Comment Written in a Florida hotel and dispatched via a free but shaky wi-fi service Human generations have mastered new technologies and working practices by standing on the shoulders of those who have gone before. [29 Oct 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Animated statistics
Comment Written at an Amsterdam airport hotel and dispatched to silicon.com via an expensive public wi-fi service Animating the data was the only way any real significance could be inferred by the human brain. [12 Oct 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: No risk, no progress
Comment Written at Norwich Airport, UK, and dispatched to silicon.com via a public wi-fi service Suppose a health and safety directorate had been the first of all human innovations and institutions. The removal of risk from people's lives is leading to a... [03 Oct 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Unfair fallout
Comment Written at a hotel on Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi service Everything, including the human body, is naturally radioactive to a degree. The MRI scanner happens to be one of the most powerful... [20 Sep 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Media wars
Comment Written at the Institute of Directors in London and dispatched via free-to-air wi-fi at Liverpool Street Station It seems that this is all fuelled by the basic human desire for participation and reward. [31 Aug 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Know-nothing managers
Comment Dispatched to silicon.com via public wi-fi. For example, all banking decisions now seem to have been delegated to machines with human knowledge of the local situation reduced to a few limited keystrokes. [20 Aug 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Robots with guns
Comment Written at a quiet café on the outskirts of Cambridge, UK and dispatched to silicon.com via a corporate WLAN In the real world we don't have to look far to find the more sinister side of these invaluable and all-human-life-supporting machines. [07 Aug 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: How I boosted my mobile signal
Comment Written at my hotel in Paris, polished and dispatched via a free wi-fi service from a conference in Barcelona a couple of weeks later Of course the human race has been overcoming this class of problem for thousands of years, and in the last 100 the... [18 Jul 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: When will the net become intelligent?
Comment Written in a garden at Lower Ufford, Suffolk, surrounded by wildlife on a beautiful sunny day, and dispatched to silicon.com via an open wi-fi signal provided by some kind and sensible person At a modest estimate the internet has the aggregate... [22 May 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: VoIP reality check
Comment Written at home and dispatched to silicon.com from a free wi-fi node in Lower Ufford near Woodbridge, Suffolk For decades my engineering target for audio and video conferencing has been that they should be capable of a level of human engagement... [26 Mar 2007]
