Colourful Thinkers

Recent Blogs.

• THE DEATH OF THE SALESMAN October 21, 2019
  “When you're lying awake with a dismal headacheAnd repose is taboo'd by anxiety……For your brain is on fire, the bed-clothes conspireOf usual slumber to plunder you:First your counter-pane goes, and uncovers your toes,And your sheet slips demurely from under you.”This was me– the song from Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘Iolanthe’ filled my head plus a ‘new’ […]
• WHY RIOTS FAIL October 14, 2019
  Only an idiot would refute scientific evidence about global warming. Their issue, the deniers say, is we’ve had such cycles of change before in the world’s history. Maybe but not so pronounced nor that correlate so closely with global industrial activity.So what are we doing about it? Sir David Attenborough has done more than most […]
• VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR... October 7, 2019
  This single by the Buggles went to the top of 11 international charts including the UK in 1979. The lyrics concluded as follows:Video killed the radio starVideo killed the radio starIn my mind and in my carWe can't rewind we've gone too farI was thinking about it last Thursday as our book on start-ups was […]
• WHO'S A SILLY BILLY? September 30, 2019
  HR experts have found a new, trendy use for artificial-intelligence. They ‘re enhancing the precision of recruitment by getting applicants for jobs to video themselves whilst responding to a set of pre-prepared questions. The algorithm then analyses facial expressions for honesty, resourcefulness and, resilience or whatever qualities are deemed important. No, this is not a […]
• ARE THERE ANY BIG IDEAS ANYMORE? September 23, 2019
  Historically civilisation has revolved around big ideas.Successions of great empires like the Assyrian, Persian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Mughal, Chinese and British. Movements like the Renaissance, Reformation and Enlightenment. Revolutions like the French and American. Technological breakthroughs: Gutenberg’s printing presses, the Agrarian, Industrial and Transport Revolutions and the Information Revolution around now for just two decades.Then […]