IT Communications and Energy convergence, or ‘ICE’ as I like to call it, seems to be here. The data industry is an energy industry: data centers are benchmarked and marketed…
Telecoms Futures
Zombie Futures in the Mobile Telecoms Industry
There is a long archaeology of futures in the mobile telecoms industry, futures that have appeared with much fanfare, been forgotten, and then resurrected once more. The ‘watchphone’ (recently popularised…
Listen to Myths of the Mobile Telecoms Industry
As part of my PhD Thesis, I created a series of stories that were interventions into the future of the mobile telecoms industry. ‘Sand14’ is a story that forms a…
Two Pebbles and a Poem
I was asked by Kim Sawchuk to contribute to a special issue on Media Arts Revisited in the Canadian Journal of Communications. For this academic article, I collated a poem…
A Future Archaeology of the Mobile Telecoms Industry
My PhD thesis on A Future Archaeology of the Mobile Telecoms Industry (completed 2007) is available to read online. This thesis weaves together two ethnographic stories, one in London and…
10 Future Myths to Watch for…
10 Future Myths to Watch for in the Mobile Telecoms Industry, a downloadable booklet, was created as part of my PhD research project A Future Archaeology of the Mobile Telecoms…
Pandora’s Box: Fragments from the Future Archaeologist
This is one of many outcomes of my doctoral research project, A Future Archaeology of the Mobile Telecoms Industry. This box holds fragments of ideas, thoughts and findings from my…