Other conference goers, many of whom are Gadgetoff regulars, also shone: including Amazon's Jeff Bezos, TED conference founder Richard Saul Wurman, computer engineer Danny Hillis, polymathic inventor Dean Kamen, sly literary agent John Brockman and Creative Good's Mark Hurst.

FORBES: Radical Ideas

It was no more than the home side deserved after Mark Allott, then Glynn Hurst had earlier gone close.

BBC: Chesterfield 1-0 Huddersfield

This year Mark Aguiar of the Federal Reserve and Erik Hurst of the University of Chicago published an analysis of how people spend their time.

FORBES: Hassle-Adjusted COLA