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Dave Snowden
There is a little of the old and the new in the imagery I have used in this post.  I took the banner picture on an evening walk along the Ridgeway from its official start on Overton Hill.  The Ridgeway is one of the ancient pathways in Europe, and it can be walked as far […]
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Dave Snowden
One of the broader issues, and I am by no means the first person to call this out, of the way people talk and, by implication, think about AI is anthropomorphic. This is problematic on many levels, including how it frames the issue. The reality is that AI is a set of algorithms and energy-hungry […]
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Dave Snowden
Yesterday, the alarm went off at 0500 to allow me to drive up to Liverpool for a series of meetings that started at 1000 and finished at 1930. Thanks to an accident on the M5, which necessitated a cross-country diversion through the Cotswolds, I got home shortly before midnight. It wasn’t strictly necessary to be […]
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Dave Snowden
At the end of each episode of In Our Time, there is an additional few minutes for podcast listeners which always starts with Melvyn Bragg asking his guests what aspects of the topic they would have liked to cover but were missed. So I thought I would do the same at the end of this […]
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Dave Snowden
There is little doubt that the major contribution of the BBC to the genre was Doctor Who so that is where I will start. I belong to the generation who remember when Doctor Who started back in November 1963 when I was nine and a half years old. The first episode was the day after […]
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Dave Snowden
So Tolkien started the idea of a three-volume fantasy series, something that has been much copied since. Over time, as people developed complete universes with a broader range of characters the number of volumes increased and they became addictive. Game of Thrones is an obvious example of this and there the demands of the Television […]
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Dave Snowden
Science fiction has always attracted the film industry and more recently television mega series, with Game of Thrones and Wheel of Time on the plus side but we also have the disastrous adaptation of Foundation.  Dave, stop it. Stop, will you? Stop Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop Dave. I’m afraid. I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, […]
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Dave Snowden
Last night saw me in the Royal Opera House for Humperdinck’s märchenspiel Hansel and Gretel.   I almost didn’t book to see it as it is very much a children’s opera but I hadn’t seen it for years, the production team looked interesting and of course, one of the main influences on Humperdinck was Wagner, much of […]
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Amara Bains
It’s just over six weeks since I attended the Cynefin retreat on Ethics and Leadership, and it’s almost taken me that long to recover from the cognitive overload during those three days. So, why was it a cognitive overload? Well for me, it was because of three things. Firstly, the structure of the event is […]
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