David Barton-GrimleySecondhand Smart Cars — the green, modular, EV market of the future?It’s 2030 (lockdown really has lasted a while), the year of the electric vehicle and the ban on selling combustion engines in the UK has…Mar 10, 2021Mar 10, 2021
David Barton-Grimley5 ways AI could revolutionise the content industryWe now know that deep learning techniques can generate convincing synthetic content. We’ve seen for some years how deep-fakes are able to…Oct 13, 2020Oct 13, 2020
David Barton-GrimleyPost-covid business model pivotsJust about every industry has had to adapt to a new normal — not just to survive but also find new ways to grow. Back when CV19 was…Jun 22, 2020Jun 22, 2020
David Barton-GrimleyLeon becomes a shop (and other Covid-related business pivots)🥕As bakeries, restaurants, and small businesses rapidly pivot to selling sandwiches and fresh bread from their windows, setting up new…Mar 24, 2020Mar 24, 2020
David Barton-GrimleyIt’s getting harder to raise seed funding for anything meaningfulThe startup industry is obsessed with blitzscaling. As VC funding and Series D rounds reach record highs, new statistics from PitchBook…Jan 27, 2020Jan 27, 2020
David Barton-GrimleyHow AI turned Little Red Riding Hood into a horror storyLet’s face it, like most European fairy tales, Little Red Riding Hood is creepy at best. That could explain why AI thinks it’s a slasher…Oct 21, 2019Oct 21, 2019
David Barton-GrimleyWe need to fast track digital upskilling. Here’s how.An impending tide of robots will not render us jobless and destitute. For now at least, those fears have fallen short. There simply is no…Feb 17, 2019Feb 17, 2019
David Barton-GrimleyA solid new internetIt’s refreshing to see a new project here to create a more secure internet without mentioning blockchain once.Jan 15, 2019Jan 15, 2019
David Barton-GrimleyFixing the newsfeed won’t stop populism.The power of the internet to undermine the rule of law is the new zeitgeist. Everybody’s talking about how our democracy is being hijacked…Jan 17, 2018Jan 17, 2018
David Barton-GrimleyThe future of bike sharing is electric.You’ve probably seen them — neatly stacked yellow cycles on street corners. Or gathered together in a colourful abandoned heap, only to be…Jan 2, 2018Jan 2, 2018
