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Fuse box failure sparks technology revolution

ON A CHILLY NIGHT on 7th December 2002, at around 8pm, a faulty fuse box burst into flames in a building off Hastie’s Close in...

Computing sees a gender imbalance in reverse

ONCE UPON A TIME, women were relatively keen on a career in computing; in fact the world’s first computer, the ‘ENIAC’ was programmed by...

It's a sad day if C4 stops making a nuisance of itself

BACK IN 1999 I was interviewed by regulator Ofcom for a position as a non-executive director of Channel Four TV – and went on to the C4...

The 'Masters of the Universe' have moved west

RECENTLY I SPENT a couple of weeks in Silicon Valley, the urban sprawl between San Francisco and San Jose. This is the place where the...

What makes someone an exemplary entrepreneur?

A WHILE AGO I took part in a ‘Question Time’ event at a Scottish high school, and was identified on the panel as an entrepreneur. One of...

The internet is not as green as we imagine

THE INTERNET MAKES a major contribution to reducing global warming, we all know that, don’t we? As we travel less to attend meetings and...

Action needed to ensure fairness around spinouts

THE WORLD OF high-technology, high growth start-ups is a challenging one. Would-be entrepreneurs have to cope not only with developing a...

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