Some general nonsense and linkage from a bloke who spends his time building websites, moaning about stuff, brewing various types of brown booze, and riding a motorbike.
I was fortunate enough to attend the inaugural WIRED Intelligence Briefing this morning in the salubrious surroundings of the Faraday Theatre at the Royal Institution of Great Britain and I enjoyed it immensely.
It was refreshing to be treated to a multi-disciplinary perspective on the opportunities and challenges provided by advances in technology alongside philosophy, psychology, politics, and the media, and presented a number of interesting ideas - it was just a shame that there wasn’t any time for a Q&A.
I’ll probably come back and update this as and when my synapses fire a little more accurately (as I fear I am currently being beset by the vanguard of a vicious man-flu attack), but I’ll post up some thoughts that initially stuck in my head.
