Thinking Out Loud
The Ridge That Learned to Be Haunted
Thinking Out Loud · Nick Appleby In the winter of 2003 I stayed in a big hotel overlooking…
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Industry and Opinion
The Price Is You
Thinking Out Loud · Nick Appleby The paper price tag is quietly dying, and nobody put it to…
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The Standard That Ate the Story
Thinking Out Loud · Nick Appleby Somewhere in the last forty years, a good chunk of British industry…
Antennas
The edge antenna: my vision for the future of IoT connectivity
Thinking Out Loud · Nick Appleby · May 2026 Twenty-five years in cellular IoT gives you a feel…
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Dear Diary – Am I Doing the Thing I Admonish?
Last week I published Your Magnetic Ink – a piece about a Moody Blues lyric from 1969 that…
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Your Magnetic Ink
I was a kid the first time I heard it. I didn’t understand it. I just knew it…
IoT and Connectivity
Zero Trust: What Networks Can Teach Us About the Most Human Thing There Is
Zero Trust: What Networks Can Teach Us About the Most Human Thing There Is In security, zero trust…
AI
Five AIs, Five Cultures – The Question Nobody Is Asking
AI epistemic culture is forming quietly. Different systems – Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, Perplexity – have different embedded…
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WHO AM AI – The Question We’re Asking Backwards
AI consciousness is being debated as if we already know what consciousness is. We don’t. And the education…
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Everything Leaves a Mark
I was driving home the other night, half-listening to the news, and a thought arrived uninvited the way…