The Future, This Week 23 March 2018This week: Cambridge Analytica is not the real story, backchannel gig chats, and a fading giant.
Cambridge Analytica scandal is not a ‘breach’. It is Facebook’s business model in actionThe Cambridge Analytica scandal is not a breach of Facebook but the very business model on which it's built, and our democracy and privacy suffer.
Banks must lift their branding gameBanks were originally businesses based on customer trust. Today that trust has diminished as they juggle their priorities between the customer, employees, community and shareholders. It's the focus on the latter that has diluted that sense of trust the most.
The Future, This Week 16 March 2018This week: fixing the web, the farmer wants a bot, and big gigs and solar in the rain in other news.
Gig platforms’ claims over worker chat groups: fraught territory indeedCould an employer or platform claim copyright in a chat group? We’d first have to accept that conversations in a chat group are protected by copyright.
The Future, This Week 09 March 2018This week: facing the fake food future, big data big brother, and space junk and cloning voices in other news.
Tesla’s ‘virtual power plant’ might be second-best to real people powerOur energy system puts consumers more or less at the mercy of business and regulators. What if the future of energy meant putting the power back in the hands of households?