So I went to see Avatar, a satire on mankind’s acquisitiveness and obsession with technological progress. I wanted to catch it at the IMAX, but the Christmas traffic was too heavy. (If you’re hearing a funny noise in the background, it’s just the alarm on my irony meter.) continue reading at www.macuser.co.uk
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Civilisation: less isn’t more
on 29 January 2010
People are not blank slates, and we can’t hack their sense of right and wrong
on 4 September 2009
First it was computers, then mobile phones. Now hackers have found a way to compromise keyboards. What’s going to be the next cyber-security threat? Biscuits? continue reading at www.macuser.co.uk
And they can’t swim either
on 18 June 2009
New research suggests (has your heart begun to sink at those words?) that cats are less – or, as the researcher politically correctly has it, differently – intelligent than previously suspected. continue
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Television can’t survive on this diet of rubbish
on 28 October 2005
It’s not necessarily a criticism of reality TV to say it had you shouting at the screen. But the target of your ire is supposed to be the foolishness of the participants, not the programme makers. continue
If only Cardigan had consulted his laptop
on 2 September 2005
US researchers have found yet another way that computers can help fight wars. The Laboratory for Intelligent Agents at Penn State is working on a kind of thing called a ‘recognition-primed decision model’ continue
adambanksdotcom @chrisphin Previous link didn't work for me either, this does - you have to come in from Google