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Where’s the undo button?
Making breakfast this morning I accidentally spilled some milk while making my porridge. Instead of reaching for a cloth, I caught myself thinking, “Where’s the undo button?” When we make a mistake on...
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Embracing the Twittocracy
It’s been a year since I started tweeting and I now have nearly 100 followers, which makes me officially a nobody. But there’s good news. I’m starting to understand how Twitter works. My initial...
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Preparing for the technology tidal wave
Two million years ago, early humans already knew how to make hand axes out of stone. A million years later they were still making exactly the same kinds of stone axes. Not exactly what you’d call rapid...
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Applied transgression minotaur
I just discovered a great new feature on YouTube. Automated captions. You so must try this feature. Here’s how YouTube subtitled a video of me talking to my son, Oliver, about the book he’s reading....
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The myth of finite resources
The world’s resources. We’re using them up at a selfish, unsustainable rate and we’re all DOOMED! Or are we? What if resources are not something that we mindlessly consume? What if resources are...
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A lightbulb moment
I’ve been doing some retail therapy on Amazon recently. Yeah, I bought some bio-degradable bin liners, some low energy light bulbs and a replacement nozzle for my hosepipe. I’m a big spender and...
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Why heretics don’t use iPhones
I’m not religious, but if I was I would probably be a heretic. Heretics are always on the outside asking awkward questions. That’s why they get tend to get burned at the stake. Heretics are sceptics....
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Do I look like this?
I got this great idea from another blog. Google has a feature in its image search called visually similar images. So I found an image of myself and clicked the link. Now I see myself as others see me....
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Wealth + Technology = Freedom + Equality
There’s a lot more to life than material comforts. Especially if you’re fortunate enough to have enough money to live comfortably. If, however, you don’t have enough to feed and clothe your family,...
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You already said that!
One of the things I like about Twitter is that it tells you off if you try to tweet something you’ve tweeted before. So Twitter will allow you to say things that are unbelievably stupid, but only once....
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Privacy? Forget it!
A contestant on the BBC’s reality show The Apprentice got into trouble recently for having photos of her boobs splashed all over the internet. Did she really get in trouble? Or did she generate a load...
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Are we nearly there yet?
The Earth has a diameter of approximately 12,742 kilometres. Do you think that sounds big? It’s pretty big. In the 16th century, the crew of Magellan’s ship completed the first circumnavigation of the...
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Does a website exist if nobody visits it?
You’ve no doubt heard the philosophical question, “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”, to which the answer is, “Yes of course!” unless you’re heavily...
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Suspension of disbelief
There are just so many creative people in our world. There are artists who make us see the world afresh through visual media. There are musicians who play with our emotions just like they play their...
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Stepping stones to Transhumanism
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES2014) currently taking place in Las Vegas is packed full of smart glasses, like Google Glass. Wearable tech is poised to transform the way we interact with technology....
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I downloaded a paradox
My wife bought a shiny new laptop. Windows 8, lots of new buttons to press, yay! But there’s a problem. She can’t print anything on her old laser printer. She gets the message, “Cannot find driver for...
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If animals could talk
So I was just reading about a goldfish that can drive a car and I wondered, what if animals could talk? What’s that? You want me to explain about the car-driving fish? Oh well it’s all here. So, just...
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Wealth is knowledge – poverty is ignorance
Give unlimited resources to a caveman and he will chop down trees and burn them as firewood. Give unlimited resources to a Victorian and he will burn coal to power a steam engine. Give the same to a...
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Will robots replace humans?
Consider this. Nearly every large animal on this planet is stronger than us. Almost every predator has claws, or venom, or sharp teeth. But humans have two advantages that have enabled us to survive...
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Beep
Everything beeps. The alarm clock beeps. My phone beeps. My car beeps. The washing machine beeps. The dryer beeps. The microwave oven beeps. Until I worked out how to change it, the dishwasher used to...
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