

Archive: Chris Middleton
Friday rant - get back in your silos folks, before it’s too late!
A controversial wake-up call around cloud, irresponsibility and the intellectual laziness the internet has created.
Smart factories - why manufacturing big change is difficult
A new report from Capgemini promises major gains from smart manufacturing – but also major obstacles.
State of interdependence - why the CCPA isn’t just ‘GDPR-US’
The CCPA isn’t a rerun of Europe's GDPR, even though some of the problems it tackles may be exactly the same.
Digital Impact Week Summit - why digital transformation needs to be social transformation as well
Blockchain, blockchain everywhere, but it’s the wider humanitarian questions that demand real answers.
Digital Impact Week Summit - how do we measure tech’s social benefits?
Digital Impact Week in London threw up some new global perspectives on an important new set of metrics.
UK AI - Where are we now?
Chris Middleton catches up with Dame Wendy Hall at a London conference on the UK’s progress in AI skills and research.
Can countries forge AI leadership through ethical strategies?
The Westminster eForum on AI skills and research excellence finds that ethics should be core to a country’s ambitions. But what does that actually mean?
Commercialising RPA - Blue Prism Chairman on "a technology that got invented in the UK - and no-one even noticed"
Blue Prism Chairman Jason Kingdon talks about the challenges of growing a UK-born tech success story that too few people have heard about.
The importance of diversity in tackling the UK’s cyber-security skills crisis
Chris Middleton explores how the cyber-security sector should be looking to underrepresented groups to help bridge the UK’s cyber security skills gap.
Cyber-security - skills and technology gaps are the missing pieces of the puzzle
The skills gap extends inevitably to the cyber-security field.
Cyber-criminals are the new entrepreneurs in an age of the "feral" Internet of Things
Some stark conclusions about the current worldview around cyber-security.
Samsung study pitches upbeat view of AI - or does it?
A positive assessment of Artificial Intelligence in a report from the electronics giant, but with necessary skepticism about its aims and presentation.
Jobs for Bots - Why the UK must grab the automation opportunity
Whilst the media obsesses over how robots are coming for all of our jobs, a new government-backed report claims that we actually have too few robots in the workplace.