TECH TALK: BILL MAGEE asks if the government’s digital plan is being held back Scotland’s Gen Alphas, numbering between 750,000 and a touch short of a million, will not be getting their free laptops for the third year running, according to reports which cannot make easy reading for the country’s digital tzar Mark Logan. Logan, the government’s […]
Bill Magee
How the CIO can be your thought leader
TECH TALK: BILL MAGEE says the chief information officer is playing a lead role in digital transformation The chief information officer (CIO) has emerged as the go-to executive leadership role in an increasingly hyperconnected world that is not without its commercial challenges. Connectivity can be found in pretty well every aspect of a business, affecting an entire […]
Keeping AI detection on right side of the law
TECH TALK: Police use of artificial intelligence is on the rise but is not without its pitfalls, says BILL MAGEE The UK’s long-arm-of-the-law has been much under the spotlight lately. What’s hardly been reported is how digitally-generated artificial Intelligence (AI) systems threaten to negatively impact on the tacit long-standing reputation and very foundations of what we […]
Worker chips and a question of trust
TECH TALK: BILL MAGEE says surveillance implants in employees may not be far away Almost half of finance company bosses have said they would consider subcutaneously microchipping employees. It raises Orwellian fears over just how far is too far when it comes to worker surveillance, issues of ethics and trust. Yet an acceleration in such futuristic […]
Titans in a digital power battle
TECH TALK: BILL MAGEE Two multi-billionaire tech moguls who should know better. Slugging it out in the full public glare over who has the biggest social media site. As for businesses anxious to advance their cloud-based digital transformation plans, size doesn’t matter. They probably wish they could ignore, if not drop altogether, the mega egos of […]