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- Janan Ganesh, George Osborne privately maintains that - "politics is a trade with its own skills and codes that can only be learnt on the job. It is not an amateur vocation for talented people from other fields.” The Chancellor likes to refer to these initiates as members of what he calls the “political guild”, taking the view that nobody else much counts. Many of the problems facing the modern Conservative Party derive from Mr Osborne’s arrogant view that politics belongs only to a gilded, professional elite. Nothing could be further from the truth, and no wonder Conservative members are turning away in disgust. This spells out the consequences of one of the more malign developments in British public life: the rise of the expert. Unfortunately, the poverty of vision articulated by the Chancellor stretches far wider than politics. Policing, to give one example, is no longer just about solving crime. As recent events have shown, the Police Federation has become a powerful lobby group, and one, moreover, that is malevolently contemptuous of the public interest and even at times (it would appear) opposed to the rule of law. Christopher Martin‑Jenkins was such a wonderful and truthful broadcaster. His quiet, unassuming and lucid commentary, informed by Christian beliefs and sense of place, was in its way an expression of a world view and a philosophy. That is why the BBC needs to think long and hard on what made him so good at his job. And not just the BBC – the political guild has plenty to learn too. …
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- Imagination’s intellectual property in exchange for licence fees.” It left some scratching their heads. Why was a tie-up coming now? Had Imagination been handed a worse deal, perhaps having had to offer more concessions or take a smaller cut of royalties? Had Apple decided it just wasn’t worth developing the graphics chips in-house? “I don’t think it’s necessary to be public,” says Black firmly, when pressed about the terms of the deal. Of course, Apple would want it that way. The company is renowned for its strict secrecy policy, so much so that when Imagination first announced a deal between them in 2014, it wasn’t even allowed to name its new partner. In any case, it’s hard to argue that such a partnership is not welcome news for Imagination and Canyon Bridge, the private-equity fund supported by the Chinese government – even with all the progress made in the downtime between the two deals. And there has been significant progress. Given the concerns over such a heavy reliance on one customer, Imagination has made a real effort to diversify, pushing into automotive and striking new deals over digital dashboards in cars and the development of artificial intelligence chips. It has also emerged a more mature company. Those bitter hostilities that grew between Apple and Imagination are now a thing of the past.Hanna Boland - The Telegraph …
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- boratory for Particle Physics situated in Geneva, Switzerland. CERN is a meeting place for physicists from all over the world, where highly abstract and conceptual thinkers engage in the contemplation of complex atomic phenomena that occur on a minuscule scale in time and space. This is a surprising place indeed for the beginnings of a technology which would, eventually, deliver everything from tourist information, online shopping and advertisements, financial data, weather forecasts and much more to your personal computer. Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of the Web. In 1989, Tim was working in a computing services section of CERN when he came up with the concept; at the time he had no idea that it would be implemented on such an enormous scale. Particle physics research often involves collaboration among institutes from all over the world. Tim had the idea of enabling researchers from remote sites in the world to organize and pool together information. But far from simply making available a large number of research documents as files that could be downloaded to individual computers, he suggested that you could actually link the text in the files themselves. In other words, there could be cross-references from one research paper to another. This would mean that while reading one research paper, you could quickly display part of another paper that holds directly relevant text or diagrams. Documentation of a scientific and mathematical nature would thus be represented as a `web' of information held in electronic form on computers across the world. This, Tim thought, could be done by using some form of hypertext, some way of linking documents together by using buttons on the screen, which you simply clicked on to jump from one paper to another. Before coming to CERN, Tim had already worked on document production and text processing, and had developed his first hypertext system, `Enquire', in 1980 for his own personal use. Tim's prototype Web browser on the NeXT computer came out in 1990. …
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- e of every capability of the WEB 2.0 protocol - before we even start considering the use of WEB 3.0 - to simulate real methods of open and disparate discussions, down the pub so to speak, it is doomed to failure from a truly synergetic stand-point. Needless to say the seed that was zaadz has been sown and blossomed in many ways, and although the window of opportunity which WEB 2.0 presented is now almost closed, who knows what the future of the WEB and its potential 10 billion users will bring !!!??? During the early part of my training as a civilian pilot/air traffic controller in the 1960's I was first introduced to the mind-blowing experience of "flying" a de Havilland Trident Simulator. It was mind-blowing for me, as a dyslexic 3D thinker, because my own vision as a child was of a future time when we would be able to personally experience a simulation of the reality such that we would not be able to tell the difference between the simulation and the reality. It had been because of the support from my parents and their parents that I had succeeded in getting into that simulator in the first place, but along the way I had been exposed to all of their diverse spiritual & scientific beliefs despite the fact that they all subscribed to a similar set of values and principles. As a result I was set on my own journey of discovery for the scientific reasoning for mine and others personal experiences of spiritual connectivity. My eventual qualification as a joint civilian/military air traffic controller took me to places I could not have even imagined - to the point where I was being invited by the likes of IBM to present to them personal computer driven multi-media simulations of future 3D global radar scenarios. During the nascency of the world-wide web, discussions with Hewlett Packard, Kodak & Phillips suggested the possibility of establishing a very powerful consumer driven social networking environment, based on discussions about the implications and applications of the still to be ratified WEB 2.0 protocol. As has often been the case, in my experience, existing companies have been slow to react to the invariably small window of opportunity with which they are faced and so it was with HP, Phillips and then Kodak. In the meantime the likes of Friendster and Myspace appeared on the scene without incorporating the really powerful development capabilities which the WEB 2.0 protocol provided for. So it was during 2005 that I became aware of a team of people who were fully WEB 2.0 savvy, led by a man called Brian Johnson, working on a project called ZAADZ. From the day of BETA launch I watched from afar and became mightily impressed by every aspect of the ZAADZ initiative and so it was after some nearly six months I plunged in head-first. In the meantime I continue to cherish what was and try to NOT forget that we are what we are in some small and even significant way, because of our TIME@zaadz. …
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