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Demystifying the modern digital industry "wizard"

· 5 min read

Hi, my name is Andy and I am a technologist. I’ve been monkeying about on the web since the mid 90s in one form or another, and I seem to have somehow turned some initial tinkering with very early HTML [^1] whilst avoiding my University coursework into a subsequent career in the London digital industry.

I like big bots and I cannot AI

· 6 min read

There's an awful lot of buzz at the moment about chatbots, conversational interfaces, and digital assistants like Amazon's Alexa - it seems like there is a steady march of AI into our lives, but is that a good thing?

For marketers and advertisers it may appear to be he beginnings of a brave new world of opportunities to deliver messages to consumers in new and "innovative" ways, but that is a fundamentally naive approach.

In the rush to be part of this brave new world it is this very simple question that is overlooked - "what is the value exchange"?

Some thoughts on the Brexit fallout

· 8 min read

It’s been a few days since the Brexit vote dropped a metric (damn you, EU bureaucrats, with your pesky decimal systems) shit-ton of depression and uncertainty on the UK, European, and global economies, and after a few more pressing matters were attended to I have now had time to think about it in a bit more detail.