Politicians love technology as a magic cure all, and letting them believe that will doom us all
Tag: technology
Lots of Data isn’t always Useful
My phone’s battery optimisation algorithms show how sometimes data isn’t always useful and reliable as part of decision making.
The Five Basic Literacies
Numeracy, Language, Philosophy, Technology, and Creativity – How I would want formal education to reprioritise its approach to learning.
Libraries Should be a Home for the Cloud
Throughout history the library has been a place for the masses to get free access to information and to help grow their abilities, their culture, their knowledge. I think they would be a perfect home for the cloud – offering greater trust, opportunity for education, and communal attitudes to technology.
Off twitter and where I go now
A chat about some of the other places I found to follow people’s work and art once I finally quit twitter.
Crippled e-books are worthless
My university issued this notice during exam time – A time when students are most in need of revision material: A number of eBooks are in high demand at the […]
Research papers are not easy to read
Research papers are not easy to read. There are loads of ways we could improve them. Here’s a few.
We need more e-ink desktop monitors
I couple of years ago I got an e-reader. I was initially apprehensive but I ended up enjoying it. What would it be like to use such a display for office work?
“Smart” Labelling & Legislation
I think the time has come for adapting legislation and applying consumer warning labelling to smart technology. I have a go at explaining how I’d do this
First impressions of the Raspberry Pi 4
Buying a pi for the first time, my first impressions with the 4B, and the hunt for a random hex code.
Nest Ramble
Technophobe yells at cloud