This is not science fiction. This technology exists in separate devices now. I know that, you know that, but show this to someone outside of social networking and other such geekery and it would blow their socks off. I remember earlier this year whilst touring with the GetAmbition team Bill Thompson talked about Augmented Reality enabled contact [...]
The Perfect Prison
August 28, 2009 by · 2 Comments
There is a quiet, dark revolution underway in Britain. It was happening yesterday, it’s happening now – this minute. It will continue to happen tomorrow. Without anyone really noticing it we are becoming a police state. We’re not quite there yet – it’s a long way down to the real depths of secret police, social [...]
Episode 44 – Kiss Privacy Goodbye
August 10, 2008 by · 3 Comments
Back on June the 25th, for the second year running myself and Dr John Perivolaris, visited George Orwell’s grave for his birthday. This year we were accompanied by Phil Campbell and Brian Jones and as we picnicked in honour of Eric Arthur Blair, we also discussed our ever diminishing civil liberties, asking what is public [...]
Do I look like a terrorist?
June 4, 2008 by · 26 Comments
On more than one occasion, while out and about taking photographs, (mainly in London) I’ve been stopped for having a camera round my neck and looking like I might be about to take a picture. Yup, that’s all it seems to take now-a-days to raise the suspicions of some underpaid private security guard. Just be [...]
