I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
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Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
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Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
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Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

- Douglas Adam

For the past month I’ve been wandering around Brussels where we held our most recent Brave Conversations with a view to more fully understanding the European Union, particularly from the perspective of my new role as President of DEF. Through the DEF network I have attended numerous EU sponsored events and met with some wonderful people within the Brussels Bubble who are working to create Europe’s digital future.

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A few things in particular have struck me during this time:

1. Europe is an idea which the European Union holds together through its institutions, processes and people
2. The average age of a Member of the European Parliament is 52, fairly similar to the UK and other countries including Australia
3. The Europeans are the absolute masters of developing Legislation, which, a number of people commented, was ‘our number one export’!
4. There seems to be a palpable fear of Europe being left behind in the digital ‘race’ which is currently driving the global economy – this was most evident at the EIT’s Grow Digital and Digital Europe’s Summer Summit

The servant-leader is servant first, it begins with a natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first, as opposed to, wanting power, influence, fame, or wealth.
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– Robert K. Greenleaf, Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness)

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