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I am starting to believe that ‘Sovereignty’ is becoming one of the most misused words in modern technology discourse. As digital infrastructure becomes geopolitical, vendors increasingly promise Sovereignty as a Service. The phrase is reassuring and often wrong. Let me start by providing some clarity, we need a clean and simple taxonomy. In the absence […]
January 10, 2026
Following the two age related posts I have recently done, notably ‘The Most Expensive Bias in Business …‘ and ‘Practical Insights into Activating Cognitive Superpowers‘, a repeated question that has come up is in pursuit of examples that bring to life the generic references I have made. To which end and none better a subject […]
January 3, 2026
In yesterdays Financial Times interview, AI pioneer Yann LeCun made waves by declaring that current large language models (LLMs) are a ‘dead end’ for achieving true machine intelligence, what he terms Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) rather than mere generative pattern completion. While LLMs like ChatGPT and META’s Llama have transformed search, writing and creative tooling, […]
January 1, 2026
HAPPY NEW YEAR … The papers are full of the usual headline grabbing alarmism in the annual post mortem roll-up of opinions on the economy amongst other themes. For me areas of the social balance sheet that are being ignored include where Britons may be getting poorer include Privacy, Democracy and Justice. For the purposes […]
December 23, 2025
Following on from my last piece on Wasting Your Best Cognitive Assets, a challenge was presented in the form of, IF an aging population has such congestive ‘SuperPowers’, why are we not seeing it and recognising it spontaneously? A fair challenge perhaps, but the response can be summed up in a well coined phase – […]
December 9, 2025
An interesting question concerning the trustworthiness of technology, or perhaps more accurately those who control it, was raised out of my last missive, ‘Is Trust The Strategic Asset Democracy is Neglecting?’ that got me thinking. To start with let me lay that thinking out so you get the context, I am postulating that the defining […]
December 6, 2025
Once upon a time (or so we tell ourselves), reporting a suspicious neighbour to His Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) was pitched as some kind of civic virtue, help us catch tax dodgers, protect public coffers. On paper, a noble cause. In practice? The first step on a rickety road that leads straight into Orwell-land, […]
November 19, 2025
As the week began it would appear sensible questions are being asked about the obscene As the week began it would appear sensible questions are being asked about the obscene valuations Artificial intelligence (AI) stocks are attracting. Not to mention the economics of corporate debt being bet on single AI horses, like Oracles on OpenAI. […]
November 15, 2025
In theory, cybersecurity is a beautifully tidy universe where every participant behaves like a perfectly rational chess grandmaster. Attackers weigh cost versus reward. Organisations invest wisely to reduce risk. Users follow security policies because obviously security is important. In this world, everyone is a logical, well-intentioned adult, which is fanciful because none of this has […]
November 11, 2025
This week it was the turn of Cloudflare to have an outage enforcing a self-imposed denial of service on its customers that included OpenAI and Twitter. This follows AWS and Microsoft in recent weeks, events raising an increasingly urgent question – Do we now need a framework for Globally Systemically Important Technology Corporations, a G-SiTec […]
November 10, 2025
I have developed a habit of scanning the opposite horizon when attention converges too tightly on one idea or trend. It has served me well, mass focus / group think can create distraction which in turn creates blind spots that can be exploited by actors who thrive in the absence of attention. So when I […]
November 8, 2025
Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) becoming the corporate world’s favourite stimulant (and many individuals if recent research is correct – ‘Generative artificial intelligence addiction syndrome: A new behavioural disorder?‘), the digital crack cocaine of the 21st century? Everyone is getting on it. From interns to CEOs, everyone wants a hit of insight, a rush of efficiency, […]
November 6, 2025
So the momentum picks up and pundits are betting on the AI bust … ‘The Big Short’s’ Michael Burry is back with cryptic messages and two massive bets, you guessed it, Mag-7 members are up front and central as prospects in a AI bubble collapse. So the following thoughts maybe a bit academic if this […]
November 1, 2025
A thought occurred to me off the back of some of my reading that led to earlier missives on the subject that had me revisit the boom in AI valuations through the lens of how it is fuelling an S&P 500 renaissance. Trillions in market value have been added on the back of artificial intelligence […]
October 22, 2025
Further to the theme of some of my recent missives there is continued, governments and economists are pinning their hopes on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to revive sluggish productivity, trim runaway public spending and give overworked public services a long-overdue upgrade. AI is being positioned as the economic superhero of our age, faster, cheaper, tireless. However, […]
January 16, 2026
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