Simon and Mary
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Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe are technology journalists based in the UK, covering everything that makes a difference to users.
We’re based in London but we frequently travel to conferences and meetings, most often in Silicon Valley and Seattle. If you want to check our calendar before inviting us to an event or arranging a meeting with a client, we keep it on Plancast
My usual response is that I knew I wanted to write but I had no idea what I wanted to write, and my then-boyfriend was a computer journalist and having seen what he did, I knew I could do it too. But getting into a field is one thing; staying here, as I have for over two decades, is another. There’s the fact that I get to meet interesting people and talk about interesting things - I’m always learning something new. And a couple of years ago I got to combine that with a look at the first time I ever really thought about technology, in a humorous column for PC Plus’s What if… series.
While researching it, I realised my whole career in technology journalism well might have been inspired by this proposal, when I saw a manifesto for it on TV. I talked to Lord Ashdown about the plans and I asked him what other technology near-misses he’d seen. He replied he’d rather have had a database of human knowledge than the Millennium Dome. Wouldn’t we all…
What if… we’d had 20 years of fibre
