Peter Cochrane
Peter Cochrane: Does life = intelligence?
What is real intelligence, and does intelligence equate to life? asks Peter Cochrane
Peter Cochrane: Why Industry 4.0 is essential
Humanity faces a growing existential challenge that will take an immense technological effort to overcome, argues Peter Cochrane
Peter Cochrane: Is AI Schrödinger's brain?
Artificial intelligence today is barely intelligent at all. So what will it take for true AI to be developed, asks Peter Cochrane?
Peter Cochrane: Our devices know more about us than we think
It's not just Big Brother that is watching you - increasingly, it's every electronic device we use, warns Peter Cochrane
Peter Cochrane: The internet needs controls like a duck needs flippers
The GDPR appears to have been written by people wearing stove pipe hats wielding quill pens, suggests ex-BT CTO Peter Cochrane
Peter Cochrane: Escaping the comfortable 'rabbit hole' of social-media agreement
Has social media killed reasoned debate? And, if so, how do we re-inject civility back into public discourse, asks Peter Cochrane
Peter Cochrane: Ignorance, 5G and the FTTP fiasco
Peter Cochrane castigates the "dominance of ignorance" over fibre and 5G in the UK
Peter Cochrane: US will 'shoot itself in the head and the foot' over lifting of net neutrality
Former BT CTO Peter Cochrane warns that the lifting of net neutrality in the US will raise barriers and hinder innovation
Peter Cochrane: Tech familiarity breeds consent
Nothing reflects how new technology becomes accepted in the mass market than its popularity over Christmas, suggests Peter Cochrane
Peter Cochrane: Don't try to understand - just remember it
Peter Cochrane slams the British education system for failing to teach children understanding and problem solving
Peter Cochrane: AI is mightier than the sword
People can't compete with AI and the human race doesn't stand a chance without it, argues Professor Peter Cochrane
So, Elon Musk wants to ban AI from military weapons? No chance, argues Peter Cochrane
Intelligence, whether artificial or not, will always find its way to the top regardless of the barriers we try to put in its way, warns BT's former CTO Peter Cochrane
Peter Cochrane: The 'war of the wireless antennas' won't be won without a fundamental rethink
The release of wireless spectrum is one thing, but how can antenna technology efficiently manage the many different bands and technologies? Peter Cochrane suggests that it can't
Peter Cochrane: Pattern matching: The strengths - and weaknesses - of habit
Standard patterns of behaviour and predictability makes goods and services easier and cheaper to produce, but at what potential cost? Peter Cochrane considers the issue
Peter Cochrane: WannaCry? I wanna understand what's going on
Peter Cochrane examines the common problem between the WannaCry outbreak, the BA breakdown and the NSA malware tools leakage - managers
Peter Cochrane: Teaching technology
Teachers may prefer PowerPoint over chalk and blackboard, but nothing has fundamentally changed in teaching in 6,000 years, argues Peter Cochrane
Peter Cochrane: The road to password heaven or insecure hell?
Peter Cochrane looks at how to make stronger, better passwords that you can actually remember
Bandwidth limitations are throttling cloud - and the economy, argues Peter Cochrane
Cloud computing will require ubiquitous, reliable network connections. So where are they, asks Peter Cochrane
Why can't AI do more to help with information overload?
Microsoft, Google and others have spent enough on AI, but Peter Cochrane sees little evidence of it when it comes to email and search
Google! Here's how to achieve 'really intelligent search'
Peter Cochrane examines how to bring AI to bear on search engines - but do Google et al really want to make search more efficient?
The Sociology of Things: What will truly self-aware devices mean for us, and our data?
The Internet of Things: Business opportunity or dystopian menace? Peter Cochrane weighs in
5G is fundamentally flawed, claims wireless comms expert
Professor William Webb: Mobile operators can't afford it and subscribers don't want to pay for it
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