50 Years on, what can IT learn from Apollo 11?

If, like me, you’ve been gripped by the Moon landing 50th anniversary coverage, you’ve  probably been struck by how calmly the Apollo 11 team dealt with the stuff which went wrong, given the wafer-thin margins and mortal risks they faced. If, like me, you’re an IT person, you’ve probably also noticed how much of the… Read More

Could smart emojis kill the ‘Art of the Deal’? We can but hope

This all started with some uninteresting and unoriginal pondering on how we are all getting angrier with each other and how social media is taking much of the blame. I know our underlying political and social schisms have a lot to do with it, along with  social media’s power to orchestrate and manipulate opinion. I… Read More