📸 Photographs
Back in the day that building on the right was Honeywell, the building in the middle was clad in all black for Wang and GSK and the College buildings to the left weren’t even built!
I wonder how they are getting away with this?
Later
You learn something new every day. My thanks to @fernando for pointing out to me that they are in fact the same company.
They changed the name in the UK to save confusion with TJ Hughes … go figure.
It’s interesting how Apple ‘branding’ can be replicated so well …
… and so badly.
Particularly painful that the two stores sit side by side on the same high street.
Consolidating Yesterday To Tell A More Connected Story Today.
I attended this yesterday …. a 1 day (actually closer to two days squeezed into one day ) event feauturing Tim Berners Lee, Vince Cerf, Professor Wendy Hall and a veritable host of others.
During the day I posted a series of images and comments in separate posts, today I am consolidating them into a single post to bring more of a story together.
In chroniclogical order »
Kick Off
… with Ray Wang, Mei Lin Fung
… and Vint Cerf
Later In The Morning
Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee … who didn’t invent the internet or the www (respectively) … at least according to them.
TShirt Proof
Dame Wendy Hall …, with Sir Tim listening quietly in the background.
Sponsors For The Day
Vint and Ray Wang
World Economic Forum
Hashtag for it all : #OurDigitalFuture
Stunning event last night.
Particularly wonderful to see were four people not just trying to start a business, but starting a business around their passion … which in all four cases was some kind of creative endeavor.
The word ‘content’ was never mentioned.