Dick Sblog

Sorry about the long absence… Being knocked off a motorbike a few months ago was an interesting experience and threw all my normal patterns of activity. The driver who hit me got 6 points on his licence and a £400 fine. I got a couple of weeks when I couldn’t work and had to be [...]

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Here’s an issue of importance: As technology has played a bigger role in our lives, our skills in critical thinking and analysis have declined, while our visual skills have improved. This is the view according to Patricia Greenfield, UCLA distinguished professor of psychology and director of the Children’s Digital Media Center, Los Angeles.
Among her many [...]

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I’ve just caught up with the vIII of Howie DiBlasi’s YouTube video, ‘Did you know?‘ (I’m a bit slow here, it was released last year). I don’t think it’s as good a presentation as the earlier one but it reinforces some key points. Here are a couple:
“this year 1.5 exabytes (1.5 x 10power18) of unique [...]

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