Navigating today's digital world
Explore the frustrations of navigating today's digital world and why it feels like a challenge for many.
“The internet is not three dimensional and that is robbing young people of social skills...”
The British neuroscientist and researcher Susan Greenfield gave a fascinating lecture, “The future of the mind, the mind of the future”, on Thursday night to a full house at the Bulletin sister paper’s Club Ultima Hora-Valores cycle of conferences in Palma.
Some random thoughts on: Exclamations marks, apps and other annoying stuff
It appears that these days cash money is of no use to anyone. Everything is expected to be paid for by flashing a bank card or App.
The good old days
I lived during an era when none of us habitually used mobiles or computers and we didn’t have ‘trigger warnings’ on literature...
Portable tablets and smartphones have become totally ‘de rigeur’
Portable tablets and smartphones have become totally ‘de rigeur’.
‘The Geek shall inherit the Earth’
Everyone is in the mix, keeping up, or treading water, trying to catch up with the latest trends, tweets, posts, news, downloads, celebrity gossip, etc, etc.
Frank Talking
Redefining work in the roaring twenties!
What happens when we are not needed anymore and some gizmo-thingy does what we used to do much better than we ever did it.
Technology
Virtual assistants start work at airport
The very latest technology is being used to help passengers.
Technology
The Balearics - to become the “intelligent” islands
Maximum amount for any given intelligent island project is ten million euros.
New technology and me - I’m a technophobe apparently!
Struggling with self-checkouts, online banking, and modern technology? You're not alone.
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Comment
Santa on Smart-time
With Christmas looming just behind those smoking chimney pots, there has been recent media concern as to whether children as young as ‘five’ should be given smart-devices as Christmas prezzies!
Peter Clover20/12/2024 11:03