AI
Why is AI so popular when nobody wants it?
Why is AI getting so much attention when it seems that there is limited actual demand for it?
Retro Futurism
Television of the retro-future
Welcome to the world of tomorrow's television as seen from 1978 in this children's book that predicted the future.
Nostalgia
In the 1980s we also downloaded software from TV
Explore with me two fascinating techniques for encoding software in analogue TV signals
Nostalgia
Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio
So there I was, minding my own business, doom-scrolling my way through Facebook posts when I happened upon one that hit me straight in the nostalgia. A photo of a 1980s home computer, a cassette player and some tapes. The text underneath proclaimed "In the 1980s, people could download
Nostalgia
Back From The Future: 1995's predictions of 2025 life
In 1995 three brave prognosticators set out to predict life in the 2020s. How did that work out for them?
AI
P-AI-perback Writer
Artificial intelligence can write some plausible sounding stuff. But can it have an original idea?
AI
Help. My AI scientist just plagiarised my research
A BBC News headline caught my eye a couple of days ago : "AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years". And by "caught my eye", I mean "made me doubt that this is true". The general gist of the story is
AI
I put my heart and soul into this AI but nobody cares
Social media has always been home to clickbait, fake photos, tall stories and gullible chumps. And now, thanks to generative AI, you can have all those joys without any of the tedious creativity.
Fediverse : Discover where all the freedom went
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.” ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. The beginning of the internet universe is generally traced back to the creation of its predecessor ARPANET
AI
Won't somebody please think of the AI?
Spare a moment to think of the poor, downtrodden artificial intelligence. According to a recently published report, AI systems could be ‘caused to suffer’ if consciousness achieved. Yeah, and they might go lame if they ever grew legs. We're so far into the land of theoreticals here that
How many IT staff does it take to use a projector?
In which four IT staff do battle with a misbehaving projector and wonder why we keep trying to fix things.
What comes after 'coming soon'?
So, I've gone and set up a blog because I fancied the idea of writing things. But then I hit my first case of writer's block : what was it that I would blog about? Not having an immediate answer to the question (and, if I'