Monthly Archives June 2002

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“It’s just not that big”

Analogue is not dead yet…

The digital ideologues in Government, industry and the media have got us all convinced that the switch to digital is inevitable and that ITV Digital?s failure is a potential disaster for Britain. The fact is that a policy of total switch-off makes less sense now, technologically or socially, than it ever did. In the analogue [...]

Public domain in peril? Not again!

Being wrong about technology

We always get the final effects of new technology wrong, usually by a mile. The big media companies are no exception. People routinely over-estimate the effects of change – technological change especially. Where technology is involved, the machines are assumed to be in charge. This is what they call technological determinism. Bill Joy, programming guru [...]

Dot.com Entrepreneur Demands More Regulation Shock!