My other association with Greenwich was when I gave a seminar presentation on futurology for the Chartered Institute of Marketing at the University of Greenwich. This followed one I had given the previous week at Reading University.
These assignments gave me a chance to look at what was currently being researched and crystal ball gaze to determine what would be adopted in years to come and what would not.
Looking back now, it is interesting to see that I appear to have got more right than wrong.
I recognised the growth of portable computing, the use of mashups, the influence of mobile phones and computer game graphics, and the wider adoption of 3D graphics.
But other technologies such as wearable computing, the widespread use of Flash, the paperless office have not fully materialised yet.
Although the presentation went well and triggered lively exchanges, perhaps it wasn’t the presentation that I recall so much as the journey home.
This was 11 September 2001. I was listening to the car radio at about two o’clock when I heard the first news of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre.
What I hadn’t foretold was the impact that that day would make on the world.
