Walking the street or on the train everybody is on a phone these days. It seems as important to us as our arms and legs. It’s all about communication, something we’ve always done but are taking to another level. We are taking an evolutionary leap forward through these devices, by them we are truly becoming […]
An important issue facing humanity, global warming. I’m certain it will be the first thing on people’s minds soon as human extinction becomes recognised as the inevitable result. Nothing can be done today as the problems will escalate for at least 100 years when we stop emitting carbon dioxide. It’s quite hopeless, we need to […]
News services are going on about “fake news” and social media, so much talk of algorithms. It seems to me that social media disseminates opinion rather than fact. Opinion can be expressed anywhere, places like Facebook, WordPress, Twitter etc, it’s just that our technological world is big, billions of users globally. It’s really a numbers […]
My word Bangkok has changed since I first came here more than 30 years ago. My memory that can’t be trusted anymore has it that in those days old women would be cooking food on the street charging virtually nothing to a tourist, maybe 20 BAHT for one of my favourite dishes, som tum. And […]
A great speech by Macron, one of the best given of late by a world leader. Not just about the great war, but also about the future and the next generation. I hope we can live up to his ideas and become humans of the globe rather than parochial citizens of the nation state. Patriotism […]