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Category Archives: Technology
Notebook
We don’t know yet what the televising of the conventions will do to American politics, to elections, to the convention system itself. Some of us fear what one good demagogue with a fine voice and a rousing profile might do … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Politics, Technology, TV, US politics
Tagged Alistair Cooke, Cinerama, demagogues, Edmund Burke, Hitler, political conventions
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Notebook
The most striking novelty of the American landscape today, to anyone who knows it pretty well, is a little box about as big as a prairie schoolhouse. These boxes are trim and white and you see them every thirty miles, … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Technology, TV, Uncategorized
Tagged Alistair Cooke, America, films, television
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How to fix the Internet
“For years, the benefits of anonymity on the net outweighed its drawbacks.” Not so now, says Walter Isaacson, who has a few ideas on how to deal with trolling, hacking and cyber-bullying.
Reasons not to like Apple
An entertaining, mischief-making list in the Guardian. I particularly liked Number 24, “Error 53”: How many corporations possess and wield the power to criminally damage their products – your products – after they’ve sold them to you? Apple’s notorious “Error … Continue reading
Distractions, distractions
Should tech companies be doing more to stop us from becoming addicted to our apps? In an essay in The New York Review of Books, Jacob Weisberg introduces us to an ex-Google engineer who thinks we all need help:
Posted in Social Media, Technology
Tagged apps, Facebook, Gmail, Google, Jacob Weisberg, software, Tech addiction, Tristan Harris
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Before Tim Peake
In honour of today’s space-walk, a classic front page from 1962.
Posted in Comedy, Journalism, Technology
Tagged Albert Memorial, Private Eye, Tim Peake
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You become a doctor for what you imagine to be the satisfaction of the work, and that turns out to be the satisfaction of competence. It is a deep satisfaction very much like the one that a carpenter experiences in … Continue reading
Twitter fakes
There’s a 31 percent likelihood that even he is a bot, apparently. James Gleick on the rise and rise of not-so-human online voices : Because the Twitterverse is made of text, rather than rocks and trees and bones and blood, … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media, Technology
Tagged Blade Runner, bots, James Gleick, Philip K. Dick, Twitter
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He saw it coming
J.G. Ballard writing about social media before it even existed. From an article in Vogue magazine, 1977: [HT: Suzanne Heath]
Posted in Literature, Social Media, Technology
Tagged J.G. Ballard, social media, Vogue magazine
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Will the robots eat our jobs?
Intelligence Squared are playing host to Walter Isaacson & Co in Westminster tonight, debating whether the age of automation is going to liberate us or wipe out whole professions. (£30 seems a lot to charge for a ticket, but maybe … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Politics, Technology
Tagged driverless cars, Google, Intelligence Squared, John Lanchester, Walter Isaacson
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