Internet Economy (25)

Jim Muttram

The radical potential of Blockchain

Blockchain, the technology which underpins Bitcoin has the potential to disrupt many large and powerful industries believes Niki Wiles. Speaking to London Futurists in a session in London today Wiles, Lead Data Scientist for the London-based digital media agency, 360i said Blockchain solved some of…

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Jim Muttram

Thoughts on The Watch

There are a couple of things that have occurred to me about Apple's latest new product line. The first is that fashion and rapid technology upgrade cycles don't really mix. Thinking about the evolution of the iPhone (a product whose significance has been compared to…

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Jim Muttram

Phases of Photography

I had an interesting day on Monday wandering round the Photography Show in the NEC in Birmingham. The thing that struck me was the scale of the change sweeping through. Firstly, there were only two places where analogue photography was in evidence: on a standing…

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Jim Muttram

The breaking of Glass?

Techcrunch is predicting the demise of Google Glass as a consumer product, citing departing developers and a perceived lack of support from the top of Google. Techcrunch's Mike Butcher predicts b2b will be where the product makes headway: I agree. The case for having a…

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Jim Muttram

Short and long-term innovation

It's the mobile innovation season again. Apple launched the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, the latest operating system iOS 8, announced the much-anticipated Apple Watch and last week launched new iPads. Google unveiled plans for the new Nexus 6 phablet and the Nexus 9 tablet…

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