Author Archives: Fred Pugsley

The 20th Century will be remembered as the American century. In 1900, Britain was the one truly global superpower in every way. At the turn of the millennium, it was the United States. Eight short years later, that’s changing. This … Continue reading →

White was always the colour of Christmas for me when I was a young boy in NYC and Western Europe. It certainly was when my father grew up in Northern Canada. Not so for my mother growing up in Egypt. … Continue reading →

Technological innovation seems to follow a pattern: things that initially exist alone in isolation start to work together and end up working in a seamless way. This is true of almost all the technical advances of the last century or … Continue reading →

Men’s clothing has always had lots of pockets. We carry our keys, wallets and, these days, our mobile phones in them. More recently, there’s been a few more digital gadgets in these pockets: music players, cameras, a wireless email device and the odd … Continue reading →

At the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos last month, Bill Gates predicted that the Internet would revolutionize television within the next 5 years. The basic premise for this forecast is the merging of PC, the Internet and TV. The results could … Continue reading →

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists recently announced that it was moving the Doomsday Clock two minutes closer to midnight, to 11:55 or five minutes to midnight. Things haven’t been this bad since the Reagan-era defense build-up. It seems the benefits … Continue reading →

I’m astounded by the increase in public awareness on climate change over 2006. It’s hardly a new subject. Discussed and debated continuously since the early 1960s, climate change is now driving change in perceptions and attitudes that are simply amazing. … Continue reading →