Tag: That’s Life!
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…
Double Speak
British Gas are advertising price cuts at the moment. A concerned voice says, “We understand how difficult things have been, so we are making things easier for you by cutting our prices.” This is not quite true. What they mean is that the price of Gas has come dow to the point where they ca’t…