Let me take a moment to add my thoughts to those already piling up about the news of Steve Job’s resignation from Apple. As an unreconstructed Apple fan, user, and advocate this is a sad day. Having stuck with the company through its lean years, and how lean they were, having basked in the glow […]

Two snippets in the past few Financial Times editions have set me wondering once more about a favorite topic of mine: the relationship between the complexity of a modern economy [and society in general] and our consequent reliance on the expertise of others. There is, of course, little new in this: it is a standard […]