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What responsibilities do companies have for the environment and how does technology help?

Over the last twenty years or more, most governments have gently changed our attitudes and behaviours using nudging. How many people would regard it as OK these days to drink and drive, smoke in front of children, or spit in public? In thirty years’ time I can envisage young people being upset at older people

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Business in an Age of Infinite Change

With rapid technological evolution and the globalisation of business, long before the COVID pandemic happened, we are living in an age of continuous change.   Long ago Heraclitus said his famous words: “change is the only constant” and it comes with a choice to either accept it or resist it and stay behind.    Is this right?  Change may not be easy, but experts say that the pace of change won’t slow

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Regrets from 1983

Who remembers acoustic tape computer storage? A few weeks ago I wrote about the influence Sir Clive Sinclair had on my tech career: As part of that article I spoke about my first computer, a ZX81 kit. Now for the younger readers we did have floppy disks back then, floppy disks that bent, as opposed

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