Tuesday 25 October 2011

HUMANS EMPLOYED BY MACHINES?

2 experts from MIT Sloan, Andy McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, have written an eBook 'RACE AGAINST THE MACHINE' where they analyse job growth and it appears to be a trend that corporations are investing more in software and automation and jobs are being given to machines rather than humans. When machines/software can do the job of a lawyer then we humans are in trouble. Would machines employ us humans?

Friday 14 October 2011

Real Cell Phones

Media reports today suggest that tests done on a number of mobile phones found various bacteria on them. People tend to carry their mobiles everywhere with them and may not realise what lurks on them.

Thursday 6 October 2011

iPod, iPhone, iPad, Icon

The media is full of news of the sad death of Steve Jobs, Co-founder of Apple. He was one of the main players in the digital age of the last 3 decades. I remember in the early 1980's using Apple computers at school. With his iPods, iPhones and iPads he revolutionised user interation with computers and communications.