R&D Blog - July 2009

The 100th Idiot

R&D's Erich Hugo on the Global Village, and why he hopes to be the last idiot standing

"100 idiots make idiotic plans, and carry them out. All but one justly fail. The hundredth idiot whose plans succeeded through pure luck, is immediately convinced he's a genius."

—Iain Banks, Matter

Back from holiday and I have so many new ideas that I feel like I am in a ticker tape parade of impressions. We were in Turkey, and suffice it to say I was very surprised at how western the country is and how far the Paris Hilton-ization of the world has come.