It’s notoriously difficult to predict trends, as Bill Gates has discovered to his cost. But, as the Microsoft boss opens the Consumer Electronics Show, what should we be looking out for?
Gannon and Gage Swanston are already pioneers of the 21st-century media era at the tender ages of seven and four. When they visit friends’ homes, [...]
Category archive for “Independent on Sunday”
Bill Gates: The hi-tech future is now
6 January, 2008 – 00:00
Wind-fuelled ’supergrid’ offers clean power to Europe
25 November, 2007 – 00:00
5,000-mile network could cut entire continent’s carbon output by a quarter
An audacious proposal to build a 5,000-mile electricity supergrid, stretching from Siberia to Morocco and Egypt to Iceland, would slash Europe’s CO2 emissions by a quarter, scientists say.
The saint factory: More and more go marching in
8 April, 2007 – 10:51
As moves to canonise Pope John Paul II accelerate, questions are being asked about the alacrity with which the Vatican hands out the halos
Being saintly is never easy. In the early days of Christianity, the holy faced persecution by the superpower of the day and were likely to be killed in imaginative ways: fed to [...]
Profile: Paul Reichmann; The perils of towering ambition
8 October, 1995 – 23:41
Two years after the Canary Wharf debacle, its king is back in the castle, scanning fresh heights to conquer. Paul Rodgers explains what keeps him climbing
Sunday, 8 October 1995
FEW PEOPLE today would deny that Paul Reichmann is sharp. Even his features seem chiselled. Framed by his black yarmulke, prominent ears and full beard, a [...]
Pooh cornered by patent
23 July, 1995 – 09:50
NEWS that Reed Elsevier was selling its consumer publishing interests, including Methuen, owner of the AA Milne titles, got Bunhill musing about his favourite Pooh story. One that’s not up for sale, I’m happy to report – it’s the tale of the original Winnie the Pooh.
In the summer of 1914, one Captain Harry Colebourn, a [...]
War threatens BP pipeline project
8 January, 1995 – 00:00
THE RUSSIAN invasion of Chechnya has thrown a barricade in the path of a $10bn (pounds 6.7bn) oil project planned by British Petroleum and 10 partners in the Caucasus.
