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In 2004 – in Lithuania, of all places – Professor Stephen Coleman introduced me to a four-phase model for understanding how new technologies are adopted and influenced by organisations.

Don’t know if he came up with it directly but finding it beautifully simple and functional, I’ve used it countless times since to make sense of how technology use is developing in organisations I have worked for or with.

I was discussing it with Neil Williams over a cerveza recently, and decided to add a fifth phase that I’d like to share here.

The puppet and live action series of Gerry Anderson enthralled me as a child, and were the inspiration for what I do today, editing and co-publishing a number of specialist titles on science fiction and fantasy modelling and special effects subjects.

At a time in the '60s when special effects in film and television were in their infant stage, Gerry's productions were streets ahead (compare the slick visuals in Thunderbirds with those in an episode of Doctor Who from the same period), his team consistently producing realistic looking vehicles and environments and pioneering a number of techniques that would be embraced by the FX industry as a whole, one of the most notable being that of 'kit-bashing'.