maitlandhyslop

Summary: A Disused-Infrastructure Network Linking Kielder, Manchester, Cambridge and London The concept: stitch together genuinely disused or under-used British infrastructure — water transfer tunnels, mothballed oil pipelines, derelict canal navigations, and abandoned rail tunnels — into one continuous corridor connecting four points that have no logical transport link between them otherwise. The route, node by node: Kielder Water → Teesside — the Kielder Transfer Scheme tunnels (built...

June 30, 2026 History Remains Important... From my own history, 25 years ago +/-, I was recently reconnected with Christian Tafani . Together, back then, we wrote a paper called 'The Twenty First Century East India Companies' which contained the UN ( IAE Nice (Graduate School of Management)) /NU ( Northumbria University) Hypothesis which predicted the USA High Tech Companies' similar behaviour today and the ensuing conflict between the USA and Europe that we see today. Modern data highways...

In a product development meeting today I was reminded of two things:1. CONTEXT - AI does not do CONTEXT, humans do. So AI CANNOT do everything. In the RESILIENCE context this is CRITICAL, and resilience is the governance umbrella of the AI world. In October 2008 James Royds and I gave a keynote to the Business Continuity Institute Conference where we pointed out the lack of context in Business Continuity Planning and presented the GODFEAR model as a means of assessing context. Many current...