Speak to someone who was alive in the 1950s and 1960s and they will soon bore you with information about how massive the televisions were that they used to watch. Even kids of the 1990s can remember large TVs being sat in their living rooms, with the very notion of a flatscreen device being nothing
The advancement in technology can be seen as good news or bad, depending on your point of view. As the use of Artificial Intelligence continues unabated and threatens to take away the jobs of the majority of people, there is certainly a fear that it isn’t all a great addition to our lives. If you
In some ways, the government’s decision to press ahead with its Online Safety Act is admirable. After all, the main reason for introducing the bill in the first place is to try to protect young people as much as possible while they use the internet. The problem is, the Act is causing some, hopefully, unintended
Technology’s rapid growth is something that the vast majority of us have now got on board with. Sure, there might be some weirdos living in the woods who refuse to accept electricity into their lives, whilst newspapers can barely go five minutes without publishing an article telling us all how amazing it is to turn
Companies come and go. We all know that. Anyone who grew up heading to Dixons for their electronic needs or stopping by Woolworths for some pick ’n’ mix will remember those places fondly, but accept that they’re not here anymore. Advancements across the board will see some stores disappear, whilst others will change the way
Teaching is one of the toughest professions in the world, not only bearing the responsibility for shaping young minds but also having to put up with the people to whom those minds belong on a daily basis. Those who don’t teach will moan about the long holidays that teachers receive, but it’s fair to say
Despite what some conspiracy cranks and even some politicians might want you to believe, the world is burning. There have been, according to the experts, some ‘irreversible tipping points’ that we have already gone past, such as the collapse of Atlantic Ocean currents. As a result, many people are wondering what they can do to
In the United States of America, gun control is a complicated topic. The fact that the Founding Fathers couldn’t possibly have envisioned a world in which automatic weapons would be used in schools is neither here nor there; those that preach the ‘right to bear arms’ believe that there should be no limits on that.
Books are as popular today as they’ve ever been, with the only real difference being the way that we consume them. The good news for a lot of people is the fact that you don’t even need to actually read them anymore, with audiobooks being a viable alternative for those that either struggle to read
When it comes to thinking about technology, we all know the big brands that dominate the market. You can’t go far without coming across someone who has an iPhone or a Samsung smartphone, for example, such is the extent to which those two companies rule the roost. You can still get devices made by companies