26th February 2015
Bangalore, India
I had assumed that a simple tiny light emitting diode (LED) can be used only for illumination. But I was zapped when I visited Prof Harald Haas’s lab at the University of Edinburgh last month. I got a glimpse of tomorrow’s future – LEDs transmitting data! A LED equipped with signal processing technology was streaming […]
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25th March 2014
Paris, France
In the last few days we’ve had two events here in the residence on the theme of the digital revolution and how it’s changing our lives. First of all we had an event to celebrate innovation and technology and young talent applying itself to the problems we are facing.
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28th March 2013
USA
There is no doubt that the Internet has changed the world as we know it. Being of (slightly) advanced age, I remember the days when the only way to source new knowledge was to ask your mum or dad, thumb through an (out of date) encyclopedia, or search it out in your local library. Now, […]
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19th March 2013
New Delhi, India
Louis Pouzin, Robert Kahn, Vint Cerf, Tim Berners Lee and Marc Andreessen were announced as the inaugural winners of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (a £1m global engineering prize) this week. They were selected for their ground breaking work which led to the internet and world wide web. We’re pretty sure we can’t add much to […]
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25th February 2013
Beirut, Lebanon
Earlier this month I posted some futuristic thoughts on what Lebanon could be in 2020. Much more interesting than the speculation in the post was the response. The almost 300 comments so far give a good sense of current debate in Lebanon: idealism, cynicism, fatalism, frustration. Some seek to apportion blame, many to identify practical […]
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29th November 2012
New York, USA
This week in New York, we at UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) have led a Digital Mission of 20 British tech start-ups looking at New York as an international expansion destination. For four days, we’ve connected them with key players in New York’s technology scene, including: like minded-entrepreneurs; potential partners; prospective clients; industry experts; media […]
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29th November 2012
New York, USA
This week in New York, we at UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) have led a Digital Mission of 20 British tech start-ups looking at New York as an international expansion destination. For four days, we’ve connected them with key players in New York’s technology scene, including: like minded-entrepreneurs; potential partners; prospective clients; industry experts; media […]
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8th February 2012
London, UK
It is unbelievable that in a 21st century Europe there are still barriers to online transactions between EU Member States. Over 40% of Europeans buy goods online but less than 1 in 10 of us have bought something online from a trader in another EU country. It astounds me to see that there are still […]
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6th February 2012
Washington DC, USA
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… going to the UK this weekend. Flying into Heathrow on Saturday morning, I found Britain in great excitement about Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday. So it was clearly the best of times to head to Broadstairs, Dickens’ favourite holiday destination where he spent his […]
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27th October 2011
This post was published when the author was in a previous role
No-one saw the Internet coming. Now it’s changing the world; the language we speak; and how we live. I recently hosted a lunch for Ukrainian bloggers, who noted how cyberspace had created unprecedented opportunities for people to, amongst other things, share news and views and influence politics. But the Internet has also brought big challenges, […]
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