Insurance Technology Diary Archive
Insurance data and technology commentary and news from Quotech Founder Guillaume Bonnissent.
Episode 86: The end is nigh
A lot of people, even a lot of French people, have forgotten Minitel. In the early 1980s, before anyone elsewhere had even heard of the word ‘internet’…
Episode 85: No overall control
The question Who will win the fight to control smart-follow capacity? was posed this week in another insurance publication.
Episode 84: Tokens of depreciation
A long time ago, when they didn’t need to have numbers and special characters, one of my favourite passwords was GRIBNITZ.
Episode 83: The digital differentiator
Something remarkable happened in Estonia after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Across the tiny Baltic nation, the governance of …
Episode 82: Fiddler on the Roof
The names Pets.com, Webvan, Boo.com, WorldCom, NorthPoint, Global Crossing, MP3.com, and PeopleSound may ring vaguely familiar to people …
Episode 81: In through the outsource door
Years ago, when only academics and spies had email, I went to visit my pen-pal in America. He was a nice enough guy, but it was his father…
Episode 80: To boldly go
A few weeks back, I introduced my boys to the ultimate manna of geeky teenage big-screen nostalgia: Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Episode 79: Myth(os)ical beasts and where to put them
At school we played billes, but it was tough. One kid always had a bigger, stronger marble which would more or less guarantee he could…
Episode 78: Coal or horse?
About 15 years ago my wife and I decided to rip up our family bathroom and start again. It was so dated that Thomas Crapper himself
