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In this week’s show Matt collates a series of interviews and reflections from this year’s Silicon Beach conference in Bournemouth. Over the course of the show we speak with: Vanja Vulic Sally Henderson Andy Beaumont Matt Desmier Dave Birss You can find a list of all the speakers at http://siliconbeach.eu/speakers_sb2017/ and there… Listen ⇢

This week Chris & Matt discuss the nature of work as a place versus work as an activity, and the current gig economy storm around Uber in London. You can find Matt’s article The Place of Work here: https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2017/09/21/the-place-of-work/ The excellent London Reconnections article unpicking the Uber story is here: https://www.londonreconnections.com/2017/understanding-uber-not-app/   Listen ⇢

This week Chris & Matt travel to Broadcasting House to be joined by BBC technology reporter Zoe Kleinman to discuss Google, Gab, tech journalism and the likely tech news agenda over the next few months. And yes. That is Chris, sitting in John Humphry’s Chair. Listen ⇢

This week’s double subject includes an examination of when native Apps triumph over HTML, and also the results of Matt’s No Notepad experiments with the iPad Pro & Apple Pencil. You can read more about Matt’s no notepad experience here, and can find his 7 Reasons to App article here. Listen ⇢

In this week’s episode Matt & Chris look back to the 2012 Gartner prediction that by this year CMOs would be spending more on IT than CIOs, how that prediction has turned out, and what it all says about the analyst industries. Listen ⇢

This week Chris & Matt are joined by Kate Bevan who talks GDPR readiness (or lack thereof) and the ongoing saga of politicians and encryption back doors. Matt & Chris also think about the latest challenge for the Microsoft Surface. You should check out Kate’s security-focused news site, Naked Security… Listen ⇢

This week Chris & Matt get a bunch of things off their chests. This shockingly bad documentary about robots, for instance. This blog post by Matt. The wonderful new book from Tim Harford. This much better documentary about automaton. We talked about the Stoddart Review of workplace efficiency Next week:… Listen ⇢

In this week’s episode Chris & Matt muse on a history of technology rivalries. If you haven’t seen the excellent Micro Men, you really should check it out… Listen ⇢

This week we report from the Minimum Viable Workplace event that took place at the Herman Miller offices in London last Thursday. You can hear our previous episode here. The book Matt mentioned was Remote: Office not required. The post here gives a bit more context to the day. Listen ⇢