Here's my talk from dConstruct in Brighton a few weeks back. My goodness, I do go on. This is an absolutely sprawling talk! Check the tags for some idea of content.

A really, really good list of books here - seminal, important stuff. (Not sure what that one by that Greenfield chap is doing there, but they can't *all* be classics.)

Interesting hints of the coming Chinese car-assemblage. Anhui's Jan and Dean can't be far behind.

"Their destination-dispatch system is integrated with the security system; it reads your I.D. card at a turnstile and assigns you to an elevator. 'The next phase of this is face-recognition biometrics.'" Also, the last line rings so very true.