When the late, great, Bernard Levin was writing in the 1970’s for The Times, he dismissed repeated calls for the return of capital punishment as just ‘one of the popular substitutes for five minutes thought’. That phrase suggests he had in mind plenty of other substitutes worthy of his ire.
Now, more than two decades on from his passing, the death penalty that he might have raged against is the likely death of an economy where governance has lost its bearings.
There’s no knowing, of course, what ‘popular substitutes’ he would nowadays have selected for his brilliant brand of incisive criticism, but current fascinations with all things digital suggest at least three – these being prompted by the growing evidence of the economic impacts of infrastructure investment and the impending tsunami of data being unleashed by video technologies.
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Written from #FTTH2015 Warsaw and informed by presentations from VentureTeam and Diffraction Analysis.
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Nice rant, David, but I was suckered into reading the piece from thinking Hutchinson Whampoa’s loca subsidiary had come up with some interesting ideas apart from buying O2 😉
Hope you are all well.
Best wishes Ian