Does the Internet impair our ability to concentrate?
ARGUMENT: The Internet is impairing our ability to contemplate and concentrate for long, sustained periods of time. This created an interesting debate online
Tagged: Technology
Embracing Change
It’s natural for anyone regardless of age or creed to feel overwhelmed by the library of choice in the online and tech industries
Heat Pumps vs. Air Conditioners
Since I was a child I’ve had this fantasy of dressing up in a medieval suit of armour and having an all-out sword fight
Exponential Times in the Information Age
If Wikipedia was published as a book it would be over 2 million pages long. There are now babies in Egypt named “Facebook”
Jet Engine Invention: In Thrust We Trust
And how a plane flies. Frank Whittle is the genius to thank for the jet engine and our modern day aviation industry
The Turing Machine
Alan Turing was the founder of computer science, a brilliant mathematician, a philosopher, code-breaker, strange visionary and a gay
Smart Dust
What smart dust is able to do is create a large invisible network that, in theory, would be able to manage the infrastructure of large cities
The Future: What comes next? P.2
What we call “the future” may be closer than we think. The technology and solutions for many global issues already exist
3D Printing Technology & 3D Printers
3D printing technology is currently being studied by biotechnology firms and academia for possible use in tissue engineering
Zeitgeist Film: Your Life, Your World
Every human being does the best they can to survive and live the highest quality of life possible. The sad reality is that the highest quality of life currently achievable, in technological terms, is lived by a miniscule portion of the global population — less than one percent. This is an embarrassment for the human race which is capable of so much more. And you needn’t blame particular people for our current state of affairs, but you can certainly blame the dominant systems in place that influence such thinking and behaviour.
