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
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