There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. Beverly Sills Good things come out of difficulty. It takes at least 8 years to become fluent in a foreign language and 7 years to become an architect After all that time you’ve earnt it. Learning these skills takes time and the only way to do it… [Read more…]
March 29, 2012
With computers at our disposal we’ve given some of our weirdest habits a new home. Fetishes and kinky pleasure aside, there is nothing stranger or more nonsensical than collecting. A brief history of collecting Just think of the monkeys. Every time evolution and human behaviour get a mention i go back to that scene in… [Read more…]
November 24, 2011
Our obsession with screens and why we haven’t (yet) broken out of the frame. A Prote.in Briefing on Slow Technology covers ways in which people are switching off, unplugging and generally detoxifying their lives of wifi radiation, if only for a short holiday. In the 80s there was the thought that computation might merge with… [Read more…]
November 17, 2011
In the not too distant future, everything will be on the internet and the internet will be on everything. Films and tv shows already have a home online. I’m not just talking about Netflix or Google TV, but also IMDB, which contains an assortment of random facts, profiles of people involved and histories relating to… [Read more…]
November 12, 2011
I’m reading “The cult of information: A neo Luddite treatise on the history of information” by Theodore Roszak. Given that it’s the first time I’ve been properly intellectually challenged since university, it’s taking me a while to get through it. It’s the book equivalent wholemeal bread – chewy but filling. The other night I came… [Read more…]
October 21, 2011
In an information and choice filled world, mediocrity permeates everything. Take the review website Qype. Founded in 2006, the site had 1 million unique users by March 20081. By the following year, this had grown to 7.5 million and as of April this year (2011) this figure reached 18 million2. It has continued to grow… [Read more…]
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