You have to be sorry for the people in the music industry. (Actually I am not sorry for them at all – they have had enough limos and lunches for one life time, so might be time to do an honest day's work!). Have a look at this story in Wired about the new round [...]

Back at the beginning of the 20th Century H.G. Wells, the great science fiction writer and visionary, wrote about the way that civilization would become ruled by scientists, engineers and managers. That is what is taking place – regardless of the number of lawyers who become our elected leaders. What he didn’t foresee was that [...]

We live in what most people would call a democracy.   But there is a bit of fantasy associated with that description, don't you think?   The government through its policy announcements is driving more and more towards a centrally controlled economy. And by the way, that is probably not a bad thing, given the [...]

Given the attention of Governments to file sharing, it would appear that the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was obviously caused by you sharing a copy of Lily Allens “Fuck you very much”.   We have Ministers flying all over the world to discuss how to criminalize 15 year old kids who can’t yet vote. These [...]