01 Dec 2000
| by ROBERT PESTON, editorial director of Quest (www.csquest. com)
E-mail: rpeston@collins-stewart.com.
ROBERT PESTON: Inside out - I recently needed some financial information on shipping group P O and instinctively turned to the internet and the company's web site to find it. Typing 'PandO.com' would surely take me there. But, lo, I was offered an exc
01 Dec 2000
TECHKNOW: Well sited - How many times after a phone conversation with a friend or colleague do you meet up in person only to discover that you have failed to get your point across? Tempting as it is to blame such failures on the mental deficiencies of the
01 Dec 2000
TECHKNOW: Tech talk - Undernet - (n): the dark side of the web, where the criminally inclined can find everything from pirate copies of Windows 2000 to DIY bombs.
01 Dec 2000
| by RICHARD ELLIS, chief executive of onefootball.com
TECHKNOW: Lessons from Web Alley - LICENSED TO KILL COMPETITION - Just what is the BBC for? The corporation, already the world's largest public service broadcaster, is increasingly an online giant, using its name and considerable resources to provide web
01 Dec 2000
TECHKNOW: Smart tools - Olympus D1000 Transcription Voice Recorder - What is it?
01 Dec 2000
| by ESTHER DYSON, who chairs Icann, the committee assigning net
names worldwide. E-mail: edyson@edventure.com
TECHKNOW: Esther Dyson's update - There's an old economists' joke that goes like this: A little boy is walking with his grandfather, an economist. He spies a dollars 10 bill lying in the street and runs to pick it up. His grandfather says sharply: 'Leave
01 Dec 2000
| by HUNTER MADSEN, huntermadsen@hotmail.com
TECHKNOW: State of the art - MULTIMAP.COM - Among the web's most successful ventures to date have been search engines, which astutely guide disorientated netizens through the back streets of cyberspace.
01 Dec 2000
| by JAMES WOUDHUYSEN, james.woudhuysen@seymourpowell.co.uk
TECHKNOW: Things to come ... 3D Printers - In theory, three-dimensional printing technology offers the prospect of a micro-factory in every home, allowing users to make small items and kids' toys from plans downloaded off the net. So far, the closest we'v
01 Dec 2000
| by GEORGE WALDEN, a former diplomat and politician, now a
journalist and author of The New Elites
BOOKS: MASTER OF THE ABSOLUTE - Stephen Bayley is a style guru for
whom design is never a superficial matter. George Walden finds gems
scattered throughout this collection of his writings - General
Knowledge, by Stephen Bayley Booth Clibborn Editions - po
01 Dec 2000
| by LORD HANSON, co-founder of the original Hanson plc
BOOKS: IRREPLACEABLE GREENSPAN - The Fed's chairman, rather than
Clinton, is considered the architect of the long US boom. James Hanson
enjoys a book that explains why - Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the
American Boom, by Bob Woodward - Simon Schuste