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Citizen of Apple, State of Lego

Posted on May 3, 2018 by julianstodd

What if you are no longer a citizen of a State? What if ‘citizenship’ has devolved from a binary, to an analogue, status: no longer something you have, or lack, but rather something contextual, more fluid, and perhaps multi faceted. … Continue reading →

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Modes Of Social Organisation: By The People, For The People

Posted on January 9, 2018 by julianstodd

Things have always changed: i write today in Chichester, my hometown, an old Roman city, which became the capital of the Kingdom of Sussex. From marching fort and Roman camp, to fortified town and city state. Today, as part of … Continue reading →

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The Walls That Tumble Down

Posted on August 14, 2017 by julianstodd

Our experience is one of two systems: ‘formal’ systems, of technology, visible organisation, and formal power, and ‘social’ systems, systems of reputation, relationships, and trust, the two systems superimposed, one upon the other. The formal system is the visible one, … Continue reading →

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San Francisco: Co-Existence in Culture

Posted on October 13, 2015 by julianstodd

Few cities have more layers than San Francisco, it’s Victorian houses baked onto the hillsides, streetcars hauling up inclines and everywhere the coffee shops and bistros. It’s a city in change, a city in flux: both old and new, layered … Continue reading →

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Apple Watch: the inexorable march of wearable tech

Posted on June 1, 2015 by julianstodd

It took three hours for me to marvel at, ignore and disable the hourly ‘Stand up!‘ notification emanating from my left wrist. Three hours for me to adapt from ‘wow, isn’t this amazing’ to ‘stop bothering me‘. The award of … Continue reading →

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The Apple Watch: Day Zero

Posted on April 24, 2015 by julianstodd

Today would have been the day i took possession of my Apple Watch, had i remembered to order one. Or had Apple spontaneously decided to send me one. Neither of which happened. None of this would have mattered, except as … Continue reading →

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Choreography: by design, not by accident

Posted on February 24, 2015 by julianstodd

There are many written languages: French, English, German, Russian, each with a proud heritage and some common roots, their own nuances of meaning and intonation. Some share common alphabets, such as our own Roman one, whilst others use different strokes … Continue reading →

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Becoming an Explorer: Google Glass for Learning

Posted on July 31, 2014 by julianstodd

I must have spent literally hours glued to the pages of the Argos catalogue: i can still remember the feel of it’s thin, crinkly paper that would stick to your fingers as you turned the pages. The Playmobil section was … Continue reading →

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The battle for the soul of San Francisco

Posted on July 1, 2014 by julianstodd

It’s a cold wind that blows in from Alaska, cutting through my light jumper and chilling me in a way entirely out of line with my expectations of California. The sun still shone bright enough to burn my nose after … Continue reading →

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Haight Ashbury’s Hippies: Permission to think differently

Posted on June 19, 2014 by julianstodd

Even ten years ago, people wore ties. I still have one somewhere, an unpleasant orange affair with a few loose threads, part of a uniform worn by millions as they trudged to work to sit in their cubicle and pushed … Continue reading →

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