I recently saw a link to an interesting new study about the impact of digital technology in the retail sector. The conclusion was that the future of retail is digital. Right. And wrong. I suspect the future of retail is retail, transformed, disrupted, reinvented and turned inside out by digital in just about every way […]
Time to elect a new people (or using technologies of expertise to make democracy more democratic)
There’s a poem, The Solution, by Bertolt Brecht that goes something like this: After the uprising of the 17th June The Secretary of the Writers Union Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee Stating that the people Had forfeited the confidence of the government And could win it back only By redoubled efforts. Would it not […]