Bill Thompson is a freelance BBC/Guardian journalist, new media pioneer and board member at arts organisation New Writing Partnership and has done extensive work on digital development in the sector. Bill has been working in, on and around the Internet since 1984. He was the founding head of new media at Guardian Newspapers and led the team that built the first Guardian website in 1994. Bill will help us horizon scan and consider how some of the implications of technological change might inform long term strategic planning and resource allocation.

1. The Future’s Here…
right on time
Bill Thompson

2. Floppy Drive

3. Old PC

4. Nokia Phone

5. 1960s Office

6. Ethernet Cable

7. MS Tech Day

8. Plastic Logic

9. iPod Touch

10. Atomic Storage

11. Atomic Storage

12. Contact Lens

13. Biointerface

14. Sight Restoration

15. Tempest

16. CFF

17. My Secret Heart

18. Pilot in SL

19. Tyneside

20. Tom Watson

21. Stephen Carter

22. Social Media

23. Bigg Market

24. Computer

25. Facebook

26. Today’s Technology

27. AmbITion

28. Butterflies

29. Birmingham

30. Norwich

31. Industrial Revolution

32. Old Office

33. 80’s mainframe

34. Google

35. BH

36. Satellite

37. FrontlineSMS

38. CD

39. WSIS

40. Cornerhouse

41. Black Hole

42. Thanks
Thank You