Futurologist Predicts Need For 'digital Bubble'
Talkback I predict that the futurologist will need a digital bubble to protect himself from flames in cyberspace if he continues to write such bilk.
[May 25, 2005, 3:28]
Futurologist Predicts Need For 'digital Bubble'
News People will soon need a 'digital bubble' to protect them from unwanted electronic information, according to BT futurologist Ian Pearson. Pearson, speaking in London at a briefing on the future of fashion and technology, said that as more and more...
[May 24, 2005, 12:15]
The Big Interview: William Webb
News Not what you might expect to hear from a tech futurologist, and even less so from Ofcom's chief technologist, but Webb's justification is based on a simple combination of physics and economics. On one hand, he is chief technologist of regulator...
[December 12, 2006, 11:42]
Semantic Schmantic - All I Want Is My TV
Blog Every so often, it wheels out a futurologist to promote either the thunderingly obvious ("In the future, people will use mobile phones even more! BT has always loved to play the funky sci-fi uncle. or the eye-wateringly absurd ("We'll carry our...
[December 14, 2006, 16:51]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Scanners are picking up the distinctive emissions of a futurologist, Captain. Tuesday 24/05/2005 Whoop! Whoop! Identity. Ian Pearson, from the BeeTee homeworld. Futurology is a peculiar business - a particularly soulless brand of sci-fi where the...
[May 27, 2005, 19:10]
A Futurology Timeline Translator
Blog Comment Maybe i can change careers and be a Futurologist. Brilliant post!
[March 20, 2007, 15:31]
News Burst: The Net Will Make Us Kinder - BT
News The Internet will enable us to move from the information age to the caring age," said BT futurologist Ian Pearson. In twenty years time your microwave will refuse to cook a meal for you because it is too fattening, according to futurologists at BT.
[November 17, 1999, 15:24]
Broadband Campaigners: The Job's Not Finished
News But after receiving no financial support from government or industry for the conference, called "The End Game for Broadband Britain", ABC has been forced to auction off the sponsorship of its keynote speech, to be given by former BT futurologist...
[November 10, 2005, 16:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog What makes BT's futurologist, Ian Pearson, so special? Friday 18/01/2002 Talking of futurologists, your correspondent with the crystal balls predicts it must be about time for BT to issue a press release saying how bloody clever its pet seers are.
[January 31, 2002, 14:30]
VoIP Tipped To Drive Down Mobile Prices
News My mobile phone bill has dropped from $500 a month to $50," said Peter Cochrane, a futurologist at ConceptLabs. Mobile phone service providers are coming under increasing pressure to cut prices as free Internet telephone services start to become...
[April 18, 2005, 15:15]
BT's Visions Lack Focus
Leader You don't have to be a futurologist to be able to concoct something more exciting - unfortunately for BT, other companies such as Vonage are doing just that. Futurology is a curious profession that combines science fiction, engineering, PR and...
[May 24, 2005, 13:40]
Artificial Intelligence: The Edge Of Research And Beyond
News As Kevin Kelly, godfather of Wired magazine and techno-social futurologist says, some of the Internet's processes already approach the capacity and mechanisms of the processes of mind. While the practical aspects of AI have fallen short of early...
[March 29, 2006, 18:40]
Smart Chips Get Under Our Skin
News The company's chief futurologist, Ian Pearson, is not convinced however that implants will necessarily be the favoured method of use. Less talked about is the reverse idea of humans adopting some of the qualities of machines via embedded or...
[January 23, 2001, 14:08]
Broadband Tipped To Relight Dot-com Dreams
News That's the view of Ian Pearson, futurologist and a director of BT Exact. Many of the failed dot-com ideas could soon get another chance, thanks to broadband. In a new report on the impact and potential of broadband, Pearson argues that the dot-com...
[March 3, 2004, 14:50]
