The other day I saw a rather alarming report produced by MoneyWeek magazine, entitled The End of Britain, predicting an imminent financial apocalypse. The claim was simple: over the past few decades the level of debt in the UK (private, corporate and government) had ballooned; that the only reason that this appeared sustainable was that interest rates were unusually low at the moment; and that as soon as they rose it would be curtains for Britain.
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CODE conference review
Posted in out and about, tagged Alan Blackwell, Cambridge, ice cream, Open Source on 01/11/2012| 1 Comment »
I was having a conversation the other day about a talk Alan Blackwell gave a couple of years back, about the history of the “Cambridge phenomenon”. This reminded me how, many moons ago, I attended a conference he organised entitled Collaboration and Ownership in the Digital Economy. It was about the possible wider cultural significance of challenges, in the software world, to entrenched ideas of intellectual property.
At the time I wrote a report on it, for my then employers. If only I’d had the foresight to keep a copy for myself…
I’ve forgotten much about it, but before I forget even more, here’s a brief review, a decade too late.
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