23 Apr 2009
What was your first job?
My first job was working for a steel company in Calcutta as a management trainee
in 1976. I had to check the weight and condition of steel billets as they came
in and went out. I sat for three months on my own in a dockside cabin waiting
for ships, trains and trucks to arrive.
Is there any piece of tech legislation that will have an effect on
your business?
I work for BT. I’m not sure that I can find any piece of tech legislation that
won’t affect the business.
Which mobile device do you currently use?
I have a legally unlocked iPhone that acts as my phone, push mail device and
palmtop browser.
How often do you check it?
Not as often as I used to. My email volume has dropped a lot as I’ve moved to
other social tools people connect with me via Twitter, Facebook and my blog,
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of Calcutta.
What technology would you save in a fire?
Some old analogue stuff that I collect passionately. They’re called books.
If you were not in IT, what would you be doing?
Teaching children the joy of reading and poetry during lunchtimes at the 21st
century school that I intend to set up from scratch, where pupils use a
back-channel to critique the teachers, and where teachers are shared resources
that video in.
Which technology would you most like to have invented?
Something that would let me travel back in time so that I could choose concerts
to go to. Any or all early Grateful Dead, The Beatles at Shea Stadium, Jim
Croce, Simon and Garfunkel at Central Park, The Band’s Last Waltz and,
controversially, Bob Dylan at Budokan. More seriously, something that makes it
easier to match paper and type and condition when I’m trying to restore old
books.
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