About that Olympic host city...

Very pleased the other day to get my contributor copy of London After Recession: A Fictitious  Capital?, published by Ashgate on 28 Sep 2012 (ISBN-10: 1409431029 and ISBN-13: 978-1409431022). You can pre-order it at the links below. My chapter is called "Farewell Nathan Barley? The Rise and Declineof the Freelance Creative".

Antinomies of Futurology

'Thanks to modern communications - email, MMS messaging and, in particular, Tweets - we were able to find out what the ordinary Iranian people were feeling without filters, restrictions or censorship. Truly amazing.' So says Richard Bacon, writing in Tuesday's Sun, in a 'personal view on how technology shaped the Noughties'.

Maybe. The pace of technological change is truly impressive these days. So how come the BBC still finds it impossible to pay my appearance fee for being a guest on his show in 2009?!!?