Category Archives: Personal Technology

National Concert Hall Crashes and Byrnes

Posted on April 30, 2021 by davidsprott

Thursday 29th April 2021 10:19 NCH: NCH SPRING SUMMER VARIATIONS: CELINE BYRNEHi David , just a reminder that you’ll get access to the stream at least 30 minutes before the event starts – both on your ticket in-app and via … Continue reading →

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Technology’s Crucible – Cause or Solution to Our World in Crisis?

Posted on March 3, 2021 by davidsprott

Back in the 1970’s I, like many in the tech industry, followed the work of James Martin – a genuine guru and polymath who between 1965 and 2006 wrote over 100 books, many of which were huge best sellers. The … Continue reading →

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My Personal Experience Highlights How Brexit has thrown a Spanner into Smooth Running 21C Businesses

Posted on February 10, 2021 by davidsprott

I would never knowingly have placed an order for a relatively high value item knowing it was sourced from the UK post Brexit. And my experience is clearly one of at least hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of disrupted transactions. Every one of them is someone’s nightmare. However, I doubt very much that it will cost Messrs Gove and Johnson any lost sleep. And down the line it probably won’t lose them any votes either. Continue reading →

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Are We Using Technology to Get us out out of the Covid19 Mess?

Posted on January 27, 2021 by davidsprott

Here in Ireland we are recovering from Lockdown 3, case load is reducing but the hospitals and entire health service is incredibly overloaded. There is real concern that new variants may be more serious, transmissible etc, and not covered by … Continue reading →

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Happy XMAS (War is Over?)

Posted on December 17, 2020 by davidsprott

Should we simply return to what was normal in 2019? Or do we have an extraordinary opportunity to leverage not just the reduction in emissions but to learn from the experience of disaster that literally stopped us in our tracks. Continue reading →

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The Next Phase of Covid19 – Technology Innovation

Posted on September 20, 2020 by davidsprott

Podcast here It’s becoming clear that a Covid19 vaccine is not going to be the silver bullet as widely advertised. I have been asking for months, why would we expect a vaccine to be 100% effective? Flu and other vaccines … Continue reading →

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