Tag: computer

  • You are not a gadget – Jaron Lanier – part 2

    I’ve finished reading Jaron Lanier’s You are not a gadget,. The positive ideas he said would be at the end of the book never really arrived. He has to split his mind in two to be able to start questioning, never mind get answers. He views art and humanity from a humanist viewpoint and technology…

  • Google – Angel or Devil?

    Google claim to be “the Good Guys”. Maybe they are – at the moment. When that amount of power is focussed in one place, you can bet your bottom dollar the bad guys will want a piece, if not all of the action. At the moment, Google makes so much money it doesn’t know what…

  • Online video in schools

    My Drawing school is beginning to be quite successful, but it is noticeable that most of my hits come from California, the home of all things digital – a really wired society. The trouble with UK viewings is that schools seem to disallow YouTube point blank, which is a terrible shame as there are amazing…