Ben Philipson's Blog
Highway To The Perfect Storm
Last night I attended Intellect’s Convergence Conversation on 'Finding Value amongst the Clouds' at Bird & Bird’s London offices.
During the past few years a quiet revolution has occurred. It is changing the way in which our increasingly connected world operates. A range of new services and products are being made available to business and consumer alike as computing becomes a utility service, allowing us to pay for what we use and when we use it.
This represents a huge opportunity for business, both in terms of using ICT to gain greater business advantage and also in being at the front of the wave, developing new services and products for a recovering global marketplace. More...
Life in HD
I love technology. Since a young boy I can remember gazing in awe at my Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2 and smiling loudly at the weird screeching and beeping noises coming out of the tape deck as Bomberman took an agonising five minutes to load up on my blinkered monitor.
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Since that fateful day back in the Spring of 1987 technology seems to have changed lanes to the proverbial Autobahn and is currently rocketing past the Baltic coast. The speed of technological advances continues to astound me. Technology, like the Autobahn, constantly has you checking in your rear view mirrors these days. I confess to being completely and utterly engrossed in what I call Life in HD. More...
