The news last week that Conservative minister, Oliver Letwin, had been discarding official documents in a park bin unsurprisingly led to huge public outrage in the press, on social networking sites and in office canteens all over the UK. Ironically though, thousands of people have expressed and continue expressing support for Wikileaks on the likes [...]
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Technology enables seats of learning, not a tower of Babel
A recent study from Columbia University claims that the ability to find almost any information at the click of a few buttons on Google could make us less likely to remember things. Apparently, researchers believe that we tend to forget information if we are confident that we can find it again. This brought to mind [...]
A Tech Too Far…
As a Tech PR, I’m all for exciting advances in technology, especially if they make mundane day-to-day tasks more convenient. To avoid queues and annoying people that feel they should be ‘polite’ and have hour-long conversations with sales staff, I’ve always opted for the self-service machines in supermarkets, banks and train stations (mainly because growing [...]