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I've been thinking about the melt-down which is happening now Elon Musk was reluctantly successful in his purchase of Twitter. To kill two birds with one stone I thought I would ask ChatGPT what it thought were his strengths and weaknesses: Elon Musk is a…

According to a BBC news story "Amazon warehouse accidents total 440". While this is obviously bad news for the people involved, is it good or bad compared to the industry as a whole? The tenor of the story implies it is bad news. But then…

Apple's acquisition of Texture looks like a pretty shrewd move against the back-drop of "fake news" and worries about social media network enabled "bubbles". Whether the company can turn Texture, which offers monthly subscriptions for unlimited content for hundreds of participating media, into a text…

The Sage, Gateshead This year was something of a turning point for Thinking Digital as the Tyneside-based event, regarded as a kind of home-grown TED since its launch in 2008, this year branched out into satellite events in London and Manchester. The original event was…

 I've just finished belatedly reading An Optimist's Tour of the Future by Mark Stevenson. I say "belatedly" as it was written in 2011 which wouldn't normally be a problem except that this is about accelerating future technologies (and why they are going to be good for…