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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Linking up with Barack Obama?
Comment We have seen industry and society transformed by technology with government generally out on a limb at the back of the pack. If politicians start to use online social networking in the same way as the rest of... [05 Oct 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Who accepts my social networking invites?
Comment The implications for industry and society, however, aren't obvious, and I have no demographic relating to age, occupation or other factors. Compiled at my home early one morning when I just couldn't sleep, and dispatched... [05 Aug 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Why are we so wasteful?
Comment The rule of process over common sense now seems to be the established norm everywhere and at all levels of society. Compiled on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched to silicon.com via 3G during the same journey [28 May 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Imprudent exposure
Comment To gain an appreciation of what society was up against I was shown a limited set of images that were so awful that, like any horror, they seem to have been burned into my memory with a branding iron. Compiled in my hotel... [13 Jan 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: New Year wishes
Comment The net result is a 'change all the light bulbs and recycle everything society' based on very poor assumptions generated by questionable computer models and various well-meaning (or not? Compiled in my hotel room in... [05 Jan 2009]
Who sat in judgement...
Comment Peter Cochrane is an engineer, scientist, entrepreneur, futurist and consultant. Cochrane has also held a number of prominent academic positions including the UK's first professor for... [03 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... dirty computers, lie detectors, T5 tech, mobile ASBOs
Comment ¦ The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group ¦ Peter Cochrane's Blog: A petabyte before I die.¦ Photos: Babbage's Difference masterpiece in action That clearly has a price (in pounds) but the... [15 May 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The one-box generation
Comment Changes in society brought about by technology always invoke challenges. The trick is to make change work for society and not against it. Radio was strictly LW, MW and SW. My oldest children can remember... [26 Mar 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Of global warming and pirates
Comment This leads to bad decisions and huge waste for society and spans every aspect of politics, healthcare, business, environment, technology and behaviour. In the meantime the real problems in society that... [26 Jul 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The power of analogy - or not
Comment The obvious question is to ask if we want to live in a society working at a walking pace or something faster, and how that might relate to GDP. Written on BA217 flying London to Washington and dispatched to silicon.com... [09 May 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Where are all the young professionals?
Comment These were true communities of enthusiasts bent on pushing the boundaries of their disciplines to the advantage of society. In any society the loss of professionalism in any sector is always expensive,... [29 Mar 2007]
Leader: Are the kids really 'all that'?
Leader Schmidt's words echo those of silicon.com columnist Peter Cochrane who recently said the IT knowledge being acquired by teenagers will spell the end of the IT department within years. Google CEO Eric... [19 Oct 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: What are the risks?
Comment Or has society become so simple-minded that it is no longer able to balance risk and opportunity, cost and benefit? Whilst the professions and individual groups have benefited enormously from the 'e-revolution',... [16 Oct 2006]
Photos: Quotes of the day - CIO Forum
Photo Cochrane lights the blue touch paper: silicon.com columnist Peter Cochrane sparked controversy with his assessment of the future of the IT department in an age where students are the... [26 Sep 2006]
CIO Forum: 'Young people will kill off the IT department'
News Young people are proving to be a disruptive force in the enterprise which will bring about the demise of the IT department as we know it today, according to technologist and futurist Peter Cochrane.... [26 Sep 2006]
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