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I, for one, welcome our robotic communist jobless future

Comment Everything will be so cheap, you won't NEED a job
Tim Worstall, 19 Sep 05:00

How do you choose your vendors?

Sysadmin blog Trevor Pott has a little list. What has he missed?
Trevor Pott, 17 Sep 08:29

Massively leaked iFail 5S POUNDS pundits, EXCITES chavs

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Frantic ‘experts’ backtrack as new iPhone unexpectedly sucks
Alistair Dabbs, 13 Sep 09:43

Everybody Loves Rayman: Legends dethrones Mario

Game Theory Plus: Diablo III’s console conversion, and Lost Planet 3 goes icy, slicey
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Mike Plant, 12 Sep 08:02

Smartwatch craze is all just ONE OFF THE WRIST

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Digital watches were crap in the 70s so don’t expect any better now
Alistair Dabbs, 06 Sep 10:39

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Steve Bong

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Steve Bong is the founder of Bong Ventures, an early stage investor and incubator focusing on innovative new technology start-ups, based in Shoreditch, London.

BONG goes HYPER as default.gov POWERS the FUTURE

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am currently trapped inside a small magnetic levitation podule in a vacuum tunnel, along with several agitated dwarves. An NDA strictly forbids me from telling you that I am in a prototype of Elon Musk's Hyperloop. The dwarves are Elon's engineers and the location is … well, somewhere …
Steve Bong, 02 Aug 2013

Put the 3 Rs back in British Education: Infographics, Nextification, Chemicals

”The period of schooling should be shortened, education should be revolutionized, and the domination of our schools by bourgeois intellectuals should by no means be allowed to continue.” - Mao Tse-Tsung, "The Whole Country Should Become a Great School of Mao Tse-Tung's Thought", Editorial, Renmin Ribao August 1966 It is rare and …
Steve Bong, 19 Jul 2013
A semi-transparent airliner on the tarmac at Geneva airport

Exclusive: SNOWDEN and ME. TRUE MOSCOW story of OPEN DATA HERO

"Why a refrigerator? The answer does not, as some might assume, have anything to do with temperature. In fact, it does not matter particularly if the refrigerator was plugged in." -The New York Times. “Not piroshki again”, sighed Ed, picking wearily at the polystyrene tray. The greasy snack glistened under the harsh lights of …
Steve Bong, 28 Jun 2013
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At #guardiancoffee, we can now TASTE THE FUTURE through a PRISM!

"Everything reactionary is the same; if you do not hit it, it will not fall. This is also like sweeping the floor; as a rule, where the broom does not reach, the dust will not vanish of itself. - Mao Tse Tung from "The Situation and Our Policy After the Victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan" (August 13, 1945), Selected …
Steve Bong, 14 Jun 2013

BEYOND Marxism: What Google learned from staring Glassily at Norks

"We have to fight for privacy or we're going to lose it" - Eric Schmidt Eric’s face had turned a sickly shade of green as the Gulfstream banked steeply over night-time Pyongyang. Down below, the metropolis was almost pitch black, the sky illuminated only by the traditional North Korean welcome of tracer fire. It didn’t improve …
Steve Bong, 07 Jun 2013

I salute Lady THATCHER - Shoreditch's SILICON GODMOTHER

"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had the majority of voting shares as well" - Motivational poster at Bong Ventures London HQ. I am dictating this sotto voce from the nerve centre of Operation True Blue at an undisclosed location in Whitehall STOP My assistant มาลัย (which means ' …
Steve Bong, 12 Apr 2013