Category Archives: Pointless Futurology

Miscellany: Google Chrome *is* an O.S., chicks dig racism

I said back in September last year that Chrome was basically an OS, and now Google have confirmed as much. Continue reading

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5 reasons that newspapers will die

I was reading a post over on Daggle about newspapers bleating about their dying business model. It reminded me of some special-interest pleading from the hateful ideologue Polly Toynbee in the Guardian. Continue reading

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Trends, Data, Insight = Speculation

[This update brought to you from the Department of Pointless, Ill-informed Futorology] Continue reading

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Google Latitude takes us one step nearer Minority Report: World shrugs

Hell. You can’t sneeze at the moment without inadvertently spraying mucus on a Google press release. Continue reading

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4 quick tips for newspaper publishers to save their asses

Newspapers are having a hard time of it. No-one under 60 bothers with the inky/papery stuff any more and just downloads news straight into the back of their face through Yahoo. Continue reading

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