Greta says the house is on fire. Panic is racked up by opportunistic celebrities, academics – and now the UN. Lifestyles, apparently, will have to change drastically – immediately – if the planet is to survive. But will they? Victor Hill enquires.
The UK government is in a state about whether Chinese tech giant Huawei should participate in the roll-out of the UK’s 5G network. The argument has now claimed the scalp of the UK Defence Secretary. This torrid affair reveals much, writes Victor Hill.
Smartphones have emerged as the key battleground in the current Indian general election. Could politics reverse the secular decline in smartphone sales? Victor Hill investigates.
When bitcoin plunged in value in early 2018 many of us thought that was that. But it turns out that the bitcoin bubble was just the beginning, writes Victor Hill.
Unicorns don’t exist – do they? So how come so many bright people want to buy their shares? Victor Hill would really like to know.
There are multiple red lights flashing on the global investment flight deck console. But the flight controls aren’t working anymore. Victor Hill is having a recurring nightmare.
Netflix is taking talent from Auntie BBC just as Apple is parking its tanks on Netflix’s AstroTurf. Meanwhile, small video games companies are thriving in the UK. Things are moving in the tech realms of the very large and the very small, writes Victor Hill.
So we are still not OUT – though we might be out soon. Strangely, the markets don’t seem concerned. Could absentee politicians obsessed by passing inane resolutions be the reason why the UK economy is doing fine?
We thought it would be some way off in the future, but some early basic cyborgs have already arrived – and will soon be knocking on investors’ doors, writes Victor Hill.
Is Huawei a threat to our security? The case against it is compelling. But that’s not the half of it. Italy has joined the Chinese Belt & Road Initiative. The Dragon is now inside the city walls, writes Victor Hill.
