You have to feel sorry for Charles Babbage, whose 1830’s designs for the analytics engine were never to be realised in his own lifetime. As well as Augusta Ada King, Countess of

I need to thank Aleks Krotoski for bringing Kranzberg’s first law to my attention: “Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.”  A stark example, though by no means the

You know that thing where, in a discussion, a concept comes seemingly out of nowhere, but then changes the whole dialogue? So it was in a recent conversation with my old friend and

The topic emerged in a conversation with a family member. You know the one, “everything isn’t about money, there’s more to life, etc, etc.” It's a standard discussion, which