The Internet
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Book Club – ‘No Logo’
“Why should bread have all the fun, when there’s Weetabix?” Asked Weetabix’s official Twitter account. “Serving up @HeinzUK Beanz on bix for breakfast with a twist. #ItHasToBeHeinz #HaveYouHadYourWeetabix” They said, accompanied by a provocative image of baked beans slathered on top of the nation’s favourite cereal bricks. Such a tweet would have been obnoxious and…
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The internet is dead. Long live the internet.
From a Scottish perspective, I can’t imagine a place so culturally opposite, so fundamentally different in weather and attitude than the 90s in Silicon Valley. The place served as a focal point for big ideas, with tech visionaries and computer wizzes swarming to the San Francisco Bay Area and dreaming up all kinds of software-based…
inertia 