I was talking to a friend who is involved in a chemicals company and he reckons that li-ion is about done. They're spending huge money over the next decade just to get 20% more capacity.

But I think what people should always consider is that it's often not about a better version of something existing, but something else that solves our problems. Like governments thought supersonic flight was worth investing in, as people would want to get to meetings quicker, but what happened instead was that cheaper telecoms meant that people just did international conference calls or sent fax and data.

I think the big shift is going to just be about people using cars less and owning less cars. If you can mostly work from home and get groceries delivered, that's most of the value of car ownership gone. Yeah, you have other trips beside that, but how often? If it's rare, take a cab. Or ride a bus. Yes, a bus is slower, but you're saving £100+/month on not running a car. What is your time worth?

The thing with any sort of Minimum Viable Product is that it has to make people's lives easier, cheaper etc. And if I still have to watch the road, like when driving a car, in case of unexpected events, you've done nothing for me.

The Minimum Viable self-driving car is the one where you can get in and mix martinis for your fellow travellers.

There's a big difference between the shift from early brick phones, to smaller phones, to early "smart" phones to iPhones and then Moto Gs. I used to upgrade at the earliest opportunity because the shift in phone tech every 2 years had significant improvements. But what's the significant useful feature on new phones?

There's really nothing compelling in this phone, or for me, any phone beyond my cheapo Moto G. Yeah, the photos are better, but you're not Mario Testino. You're photographing your kids outside Big Ben and sharing it on Facebook. And a Moto G does that absolutely fine. More CPU? For what? What are you running on it? Super Retina XDR? OLED? You're going to watch Barry Lyndon or 2001 on your phone and enjoy the picture quality?

But I look at it this way: the suckers buying this make my next £200 Moto G better. I'm not against more CPU or battery life, and people rushing out to buy the latest Apple phone pays for R&D and means I get better tech, so please, keep buying your overpriced piece of jewellery.

Do any Inuit care? Every Hollywood movie villain is British and I just don't care. Call it the Limey Honky Nebula and see how few British people write in.

I have an iPad Mini for user testing and that's all. I avoid everything Apple because of their general unfriendliness to developers. OK, mistakes happen, but you rectify it. You find the customers, you tell them it was a mistake by Apple, you make a generous payment to the developer.

Yes, but it's not fully compatible with all Windows programs. Games, software with 3rd party drivers and 64-bit code doesn't run.

they didn't say it though, did they? What they stated as running compatibly was Mac applications.

Sometimes, what isn't said is more interesting than what is, and I'm guessing from that statement that Windows on Mac is dead.

I'm not saying that there aren't lies all over the web, but as far as Brexit is concerned, I can point to all sorts of lies that newspapers have been printing, lies that take 10 seconds on Google to refute.

I think the web is far healthier today than it's ever been because the gatekeepers are getting destroyed. Remember when you went to see a movie because of a particular actor? You don't do that today. It's killed movie stars as a mark of quality. Movies can be massive or dead within hours of release as people post a thumbs up or down on Twitter. Films have improved as a result. You can't just hire stars, put them on sofas and get an audience for a month.

Bullshit articles are wiped out by counter articles from bloggers within hours. Careers of grifter journalists who know nothing are being destroyed, and this is a very good thing.

These devices have been a huge hit with the blind and partially sighted as so much can be done with just voice. The problem is that's a fairly limited audience.

Outside of that, I've looked at them and thought they were basically gimmicks. I've got a phone sat in my pocket. I can send music to a bluetooth speaker with that. Why do I want something listening to me?

Remember, Jonny Ive was at Apple when they made the 20th Anniversary Mac. He's a talented guy, but Jobs did a lot of sending iPhones back to change them.

I'm not the biggest Apple fan. I need more control than that, but it's clear that Jobs was a serious quality control guy. And not just from the POV of the product being good, but that customers would love the product. And he could see things in the totality - functionality, aesthetics, support, usability. He would ditch functionality (like CD drives) that would make them thinner when it was reasonably functional to do so because USB and internet were replacing them. It was a good trade off. Losing all those ports though? Having USB-C for laptops and lightning for phones? Thats just a total mess.

You know, there's lots of American movies that aren't like that. Woody Allen, Paul Thomas Anderson, Spike Lee, Sofia Coppola, Wes Anderson, The Coens

Historically there's loads of great French films. La Regle du Jeu, Bande a Part, Subway, Vivement Dimanche, Amelie, Cyrano de Bergerac, Jean de Florette, Belle de Jour, Le Samourai, Les Diaboliques and The Wages of Fear. The problem is they have made very little that's worth watching for years. Since 2000, there's only a couple of French films that really impressed me.

If small, local productions are good, why wouldn't netflix show them?

these streaming companies already do this. I saw films like Ida, Phoenix, Downfall and Personal Shopper on Netflix or Amazon.

The reality is that a lot of European movie production just isn't very good. There isn't a generation replacing Fellini, Bergman, Truffaut, Godard and Fassbinder. Or even Luc Besson and Paul Verhoeven. Nicolas Winding Refn is about the only very good European director with a few films to his name.

Korea and Mexico are producing better directors right now.