Technology

• 14th August 2019 Nick O'Connor

  The future on a chip

  Back to the quantum frontier we go. If that makes no sense to you it means you missed yesterday’s piece and should read it now before reading on. I left off yesterday by quoting an exchange between resident tech experts…

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• 6th August 2019 Nick O'Connor

  The 5G rollout

  We venture back beneath the streets of London again today. As Peter Ackroyd put it in London Under, when you walk the streets of London you “are treading on skin, a skein of stone that covers rivers and labyrinths, tunnels…

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• 5th August 2019 Nick O'Connor

  Secrets of the underworld

  Walk north along Blackfriars Bridge. Cross the Embankment, leave the river behind you and head up the hill. A short while later you’ll reach a crossroads. Stop and look around you. You’re standing on the very western boundary of the…

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• 30th July 2019 Harry Hamburg

  Do you recognise this symbol?

  Do you recognise this symbol? If you know your history, you certainly will. If not, you may still recognise it if you watched the surprisingly good TV drama Taboo in 2017, starring Tom Hardy. The symbol is, or rather was,…

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• 26th July 2019 Harry Hamburg

  Big Tech vs Big Government

  In yesterday’s Exponential Investor Premium, Eoin Treacy gave his analysis on the US Department of Justice’s antitrust probe into Big Tech. If you missed it, you can join Exponential Investor Premium here. Basically, Eoin said this investigation is already setting…

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• 25th July 2019 Harry Hamburg

  The war on cures

  At the start of the year I wrote a series of five articles predicting what might happen throughout the course of 2019. I made predictions in the following five areas: Cars Communication Big Tech Crypto Medicine Today, I’d like to…

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• 16th July 2019 Harry Hamburg

  Like ice cream, today’s edition is “steeped in optimism and sparks joy”

  When it comes to “medical miracles” there’s always been a big three. They are: Reversing paralysis. Helping the blind to see. Curing the incurable diseases like cancer and dementia. Well, now one of those big three has been achieved. From…

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• 30th May 2019 Harry Hamburg

  The only number that counts when it comes to retirement

  There is around a 49% chance the stockmarket will drop in price tomorrow. But over the next ten years, there’s more than a 99% chance it will be up in price, at least according to Barron’s. That’s pretty good odds….

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• 28th May 2019 Harry Hamburg

  Humanity’s greatest achievement

  What has been humanity’s greatest achievement? Survival. When you boil it all down, survival is, and will continue to be, the most important thing ever achieved by humanity. All our other big achievements have merely been in pursuit of survival….

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• 22nd May 2019 Harry Hamburg

  Just how gullible are we?

  “Propaganda is making puppets of us. We are moved by hidden strings which the propagandist manipulates.” – Everett Dean Martin 1929 That quote comes from a debate between social psychologist Everett Dean Martin and the father or modern propaganda, Edward…

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