I was, to my wife's exasperation, a (very) late adopter of mobile phone technology; I have luddite tendencies, after all. Anyway, this isn't about me (it turns out some things aren't! Who knew). This is about how we think about mobiles. They are sold as wonderboxes that have the world's knowledge at our fingertips. As... Continue Reading →
Of mobile phones and climate change – false hopes of transformative leaps…
Chances are you are reading this on a device that has a “QWERTY” keyboard. Is that the most ‘sensible’ format for fast and accurate typing? Probably not – the most common letters in English (AERTSNI) should surely be clustered around the (right) index and forefingers. Why do we have QWERTY? Because back in the day... Continue Reading →