A post rescued from my draft folder... An invitation to speculate on "data as a currency" at the Leeds Digital Conference forced me to crystalise a long-held unease with metaphors that cast data as any kind of commodity or medium of exchange. It has become commonplace, even among people I trust and respect, to say things … Continue reading Data is neither oil nor currency. It’s much more serious than that
It's been a busy year. I start posts and don't finish them. Below are the working titles of some posts languishing in my drafts folder. Please vote for the one you'd most like me to finish.
For my wife's family it is the crockery. Staffordshire-raised, they can't resist upturning plates and bowls to check their makers' marks - Doulton, Wedgwood and what-have-you. And my own father grew up near Sheffield, so in restaurants I also study the knives and forks - David Mellor was a Noughties Brit cuisine staple. But Leeds, well … Continue reading Three machines made in Leeds
Excerpt from early C20th Children's Encyclopedia - date uncertain The day will come (he said) when we are all forgotten, when copper wires, gutta-percha covers, and iron bands will only be found in museums, and a person who wishes to speak to a friend but does not know where he is will call him with … Continue reading Excerpt from early C20th Children’s Encyclopedia – date uncertain
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