Technology ⁽⁶⁾

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…

I'm a great supporter of driverless cars. I think they have the potential to dramatically change the world, making much better use of resources, revolutionising mobility for all and radically improving our towns and cities. Paradoxically, however, I am not so keen on Phillip Hammond's…

This is a post over which I have been pondering for quite a while. While the debate rages on daily about whether AI (specifically AGI) is humanity's great saviour or the biggest existential threat we all face, several stories which have emerged over the past…

I was struck this week by the sharp contrast in language styles adopted by two of the world's great tech leaders - Tim Cook and Elon Musk. Tim Cook's keynote at the WWDC was full of the kind of language we have long associated with…

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…