05 Sep 2020
https://michael-lewis.com/posts/london-to-orkney-and-most-of-the-nc500-in-an-electric-car/
A few years back, I was an avid reader of long distance electric vehicle road trip reports. It seemed like the people making them were intrepid pioneers in a new era of transportation. Well here's my slightly belated contribution to the genre. The route was based on a trip I took with my wife in August 2003. We stopped at Loch Ness first, then went up the east coast, decided to do a day trip to Orkney from John O'Groats, then back along the north and down the west coast.
21 Jun 2020
https://michael-lewis.com/posts/what-went-wrong-with-the-internet-and-how-to-fix-it/
I remember when the internet, or more specifically the web, was new. There was so much hope and optimism. Early adopters talked excitedly of the seemingly endless ways in which it would revolutionise so many aspects of society in positive ways. It seemed like we were fortunate enough to be on the cusp of a once-in-every-few-generations technology-driven paradigm shift, like the invention of the printing press or the electric telegraph. Nowadays it is so very different.