Geek Culture Veteran UK tech journalist Guy Kewney dies
Thursday, April 8, 2010 at 10:53AM
Guy Kewney, one of the UK's best known and most influential tech journalists passed away peacefully this morning.I was lucky enough to be interviewed by Guy a couple of times for an article on cloud computing. We met at his sailing club and enjoyed several cups of coffee as we discussed the migration cycle from mainframe to client/server to the cloud. Guy had a very broad knowledge of not just technology, but also its impact on society and the human element was always present in his questioning.
I grew up reading Guy's articles in Personal Computer World and he was a major influence on my decision to move into the field of computing.
Any discussion of Guy isn't complete without mentioning the now famous Guy Coma incident, in which a very bemused Congolese Economics graduate who was working as a minicab driver is dragged into a live BBC News 24 television interview under the mistaken assumption he is Guy Kewney:
Update 12 April: The Register has an obituary for Guy today.

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