Can we all agree on what ‘metaverse’ means?

What is this thing we’re calling the metaverse? There’s a steep learning curve for much of the emerging technology I write about – quantum computing, precision medicine, artificial intelligence, solid state batteries and cybersecurity. Three years after writing about...

A lightbulb moment

I have a magpie mind; I collect information. But, I fail to accumulate knowledge.  Fleetingly, I’ll be a world authority on a subject because I’ve spoken to experts and interviewed thought leaders. All that research benefits my clients, but it doesn’t stick in my...

Curation for the (COVID) duration

Are you avoiding the news? According to research by the Reuters Institute, 60 per cent of people say they always, often or sometimes avoid news during the present Covid-19 emergency. Well, this is a news-free zone. As we endure the second month of lockdown, I share...
The Future of Fintech for The CA

The Future of Fintech for The CA

About twenty years ago, I got my first experience of working on a business magazine. Amid deadlines for a Masters in Journalism and early morning shifts at a press cutting agency, I filed my first piece for The CA magazine. Back then, the magazine was produced...

Moby, Elton John and The Ghost Writer

Is it ever worth reading the Afterword, the bit at the end of a book that explains how it came into being? Below is an excerpt taken from Porcelain, the coming-of-age memoir written by musician and DJ, Moby: “When I first talked to a literary agent about writing a...