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Gurteen Knowledge Café: Imagining the future of knowledge technologies

By ⋅ May 1, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

If the idea of predicting the future currently seems rather foolish to me, it may be because I’m reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s “Fooled by Radomness”. I signed up for Tuesday night’s Gurteen Knowledge Café at the British Computer Society more in anticipation of good conversation than any hope of forecasting anything significant. Conrad Taylor opened [...]

Gurteen Knowledge Cafe: Human Will and Human Won’t

By ⋅ March 20, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Last night’s Gurteen Knowledge Cafe was full of fascinating conversation from the word go. Kate Hopkinson led the discussions on “Human Will and Human Won’t”, diving straight in with little introduction posing two questions: “What do you believe helps motivation and cooperation and what suppresses or impedes it?” The group on my table began with [...]

An engaging Tuesday…

By ⋅ February 18, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

Two engagement events on Tuesday: one highlighting the need for evolutionary change, the other examined the problems managers face every day. Not many people get to travel to the top of the BT tower, which might partly explain why Tuesday afternoon’s Gurteen Knowledge Café was so heavily oversubscribed. Add Dave Snowden speaking about complexity and [...]

Gurteen Knowledge Cafe: An evening exploring Quality Conversation with Ray Shaw

By ⋅ January 14, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I’m looking forward to tonight’s Knowledge Cafe. Not only do I have no idea what to expect from the event, but it’s another opportunity to return to an area of London I used to know very well. Walking towards the London Development Agency’s office across Blackfriars Bridge, I notice both The Coat and Badge and [...]

My Favourite Knowledge Cafés

By ⋅ June 13, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

I’m looking forward to this year’s Gurteen Knowledge Barbeque in July. I’ve been going to David’s London Knowledge Cafés for over three years now (although strangely it seems longer) and although my first wasn’t the most inspiring, the subjects were enough to keep me going back. My participation has been limited since the in situ: [...]

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