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  • British Airways and Time-Travelling Commercials

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    British Airways unveiled their big new commercial recently, as part of their £20 million advertising campaign: It has a Downton Abbey/Mad Men retro vibe, mixed with a go-getting drive to the future; we’re meant to admire these brave ‘young men’ (as they’re always called – not ‘young people’ and certainly not ‘young women’) as they…

  • On Reamde, Neal Stephenson, and The Mongoliad

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    I was disappointed. When I heard about Reamde‘s premise of hackers, spies, and gold mining in a massive multiplayer online game called T’Rain, I had the same worried feeling that I had when I heard about Anathem’s monasteries – that Neal Stephenson was venturing away from the sort of adventure/SF capers I enjoyed best. However,…

  • Things I’m doing

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    Over the next few months, I’m going to be doing several conferences: TEDxSheffield on 22nd Sept Improving Reality in Brighton on 23rd Sept This Happened in London on 23rd Sept Over the Air in Bletchley Park on 30th Sept BAF Game in Bradford on 8th November There’d be three more if I weren’t going on…