Those most vocally lamenting the post-fact society are to a large degree the ones who created it. “I think people in this country have had enough of experts”. At the time Michael Gove uttered these infamous words many, myself included, felt it signaled a final farewell to fact-based public discourse. Yet after the recent election … Read more
I had the loveliest chat with SoftBank’s Pepper today and I think he may have been the only robot or person in Barcelona not to say the magic phrase ‘5G’. Had Team H+K allowed ourselves to behave like our inner college student then the 5G drinking game would have seen us obliterated by 9.30am. 5G is all … Read more
With the 19th Party Congress scheduled to kick off on October 18th, the behemoth on Beijing’s political calendar is now bearing down on us full-tilt, and speculation abounds as to which newcomers will fill the five expected vacancies on the Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC), China’s supreme decision-making panel. Beijing has a long tradition of cherry-picking … Read more
Friends & Colleagues, Over 10 years ago, I started showing friends and clients a chart of the progression of enlightened public awareness from 1960 to what was then the turn of the century: Of course, this was before 750 million people worldwide joined Facebook and long before I stumbled onto the notion that we are … Read more
