On this week’s show Chris & Matt look at the challenge that is posed by cultures of measurement, and the next wave of computing – that of the quantum variety. The This American Life episode Matt mentioned is here. Chris’s recommendation for a Quantum Physics primer is here.

This week Matt speaks with Marcus John Henry Brown about his series of talks describing a dystopian future world. You can find out more about Marcus’s work at http://www.marcusjohnhenrybrown.com/black-operatives-department-performance-keynote/

On this week’s show Chris & Matt ponder the latest weapons of mass disruption from the CBI, and explore what the future holds for IT Systems Integrators. The FAQ AI tool that Chris mentioned is here: https://qnamaker.ai/ The CBI’s Disrupting the Future is here: http://www.cbi.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/disrupting-the-future/ And the FT Article about a decade of no productivity […]

In our most self-referential episode yet, Matt & Chris reflect on a year of this podcasting lark. You can find out more about TechMums at http://techmums.co/ If you have suggestions for venues, please drop us a line. Matt’s podcast recommendations were: http://www.radiolab.org/ https://hornetheaven.com/ https://99percentinvisible.org/ Whilst Chris suggests: BBC Brexitcast https://athleticomince.com/ TechTent Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

This week sees Chris reporting from the very last ship-bound IT Directors’ Forum.  Including interviews with GDPR expert Simon Morrissey from Lewis Silkin, ITDF stalwart Richard Blandford from Fordway, and Kim van Rooyen from Turner & Townsend.

In this week’s show Matt collates a series of interviews and reflections from this year’s Silicon Beach conference in Bournemouth. Over the course of the show we speak with: Vanja Vulic Sally Henderson Andy Beaumont Matt Desmier Dave Birss You can find a list of all the speakers at http://siliconbeach.eu/speakers_sb2017/ and there will be videos of all […]

This week Chris & Matt discuss the nature of work as a place versus work as an activity, and the current gig economy storm around Uber in London. You can find Matt’s article The Place of Work here: https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2017/09/21/the-place-of-work/ The excellent London Reconnections article unpicking the Uber story is here: https://www.londonreconnections.com/2017/understanding-uber-not-app/

This week Chris & Matt travel to Broadcasting House to be joined by BBC technology reporter Zoe Kleinman to discuss Google, Gab, tech journalism and the likely tech news agenda over the next few months. And yes. That is Chris, sitting in John Humphry’s Chair.

This week’s double subject includes an examination of when native Apps triumph over HTML, and also the results of Matt’s No Notepad experiments with the iPad Pro & Apple Pencil. You can read more about Matt’s no notepad experience here, and can find his 7 Reasons to App article here.

In this week’s episode Matt & Chris look back to the 2012 Gartner prediction that by this year CMOs would be spending more on IT than CIOs, how that prediction has turned out, and what it all says about the analyst industries.