Breakfast today at Soho House with advertising legend Baron (Maurice) Saatchi of Staplefield, hosting my favourite data expert, Kenneth Neil Cukier, co-author of BIG DATA, A REVOLUTION THAT WILL TRANSFORM HOW WE LIVE, WORK AND THINK.
Guests included business leaders from retail, telcos and banking, who were all treated to the most erudite of introductions by the man who, many argue, helped to make Margaret Thatcher (and Britain) a force to be reckoned with on the world stage.
Maurice Saatchi graduated the London School of Economics with first class honours in 1967, so maybe he’s biased (Kenneth Cukier is Data Editor at The Economist), but I detected no irony when he referred to the author as a latter day Isaac Newton, sharing knowledge and science which seems new and unwieldy to begin with, but as obvious as gravity with the benefit of hindsight.
Books For Breakfast 