Dick Sblog

I was listening to the radio this morning as I dragged myself into a new day. They were talking about developing autonomous military robots – killing machines that could be programmed to respect the Geneva Conventions.
This prompted two thoughts – firstly that computers are great at crunching numbers and making decisions based on rules. But [...]

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Martin Parker, the Professor of Organisation and Culture at Leicester Unversity’s School of Management, makes some interesting points in his piece in the Observer’s business section on November 30th.
He talks about the multiple forms of organisation that have been adopted by people throughout the time we’ve been around and comments on the fact that business [...]

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