2015-07-27 (Monday)
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Opening July 2015, “CodeNode, our new 23,000 sqft Tech Events and Community venue”. Looks nice, and big. On South Place, just west of Liverpool Street station. That City / “Tech City” border is getting very blurry. (via @tomstuart)
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@tomstuart @whoisdanw We should have a rota for these things.
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@blech I meant that @infraclub might argue with "no one wants to hang out at their power company", not whether Google's a utility.
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Expecting a disagreement from @infraclub any moment… twitter.com/tomcoates/stat…
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Fundamentally, Google is a utility. No one wants to hang out at their power company.
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“One reason Apple and Google survived was because they were bad at ‘social’ – they weren’t tied to one cohort. Remember Facebook? Twitter?”
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@BBHLabs Not really, sorry. It must be difficult trying to find a kind of person you find impossible to describe :)
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@BBHLabs OK but what is “a retrofuturist”? Someone who wears a silver jumpsuit? Or wishes the present was like that?Or only writes about it?
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@BBHLabs I have no idea what a retrofuturist is, but I was a futurist 15 years ago, and so I claim my first prize.
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@tomstuart If only all organisations were as forward-thinking.
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@tomstuart Looks like an impressive place! And not just because I can get there really easily.