R&D Blogg - July 2009

The 100th Idiot

By Erich Hugo on 2009-07-29
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R&D's Erich Hugo on the Global Village, and why he hopes to be the last idiot standing

"100 idiots make idiotic plans, and carry them out. All but one justly fail. The hundredth idiot whose plans succeeded through pure luck, is immediately convinced he's a genius."

—Iain Banks, Matter

Back from holiday and I have so many new ideas that I feel like I am in a ticker tape parade of impressions. We were in Turkey, and suffice it to say I was very surprised at how western the country is and how far the Paris Hilton-ization of the world has come.

The Evolution of Revolution

By Erich Hugo on 2009-07-28
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R&D's Erich Hugo on Nelson Mandela, his mother-in-law and the communication revolution

Revolutions have become sanitized affairs in the Western World. Far removed from the guts and glory days of the French Revolution, there has been an ebb towards making these socially up heaving events part an parcel of our daily lives. Most people in the west don't even notice the revolutions really; they just go from one default state to another without really prompting or even questioning their own motives. I guess it's all in the packaging.

I have lived through a revolution IRL.