Many see the rejection of evolutionary science as a marker of religiosity or hard-line conservativism. There is a widespread assumption that religious people will find it hard to reconcile evolutionary science, and by extension science as a whole, with their… Read More ›
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Why I still wear the Apple Watch
The Apple Watch is the last watch most of us will ever wear. Watches, as a fashion statement and a tool, are fading and things like the Apple Watch are the last vestige of these strange objects that William Gibson… Read More ›
How to discipline kids
“The best you can shoot for is influence, not control,” Green told Business Insider. “And that means your role is more of a partner than that of lord and master.” More at Business Insider. I suppose it depends on… Read More ›
We’ve predicted and broken human population limits for centuries
Worries about population expansion resurfaced with World War I. “Population pressure is always a major cause of war,” remarked biologist Raymond Pearl in his 1925 book The Biology of Population Growth. As head statistician for the U.S. Food Administration during… Read More ›
After Generation Z comes Generation Alpha
A survey of Canadian Millennials. I imagine it’s pretty much the same worldwide. And it’ll be more so for later Generations. . That got me looking at what the various generations are and found this: Generation Name Births Start Births… Read More ›
The Extraordinary True Story of the First Camera Phone
Phillipe Kahn invented the first camera phone on June 11th, 1997, the day his daughter was born. He had his jerry-rigged system, a mobile phone plus a digital camera, in the delivery room and was able to capture little Sophie… Read More ›
Are robots persons?
Sounds like a science fiction theme. Recall the Star Trek The Next Generation episode about whether Data was a person. I saw this article at CBC News about robots paying taxes. Not directly, but the idea was that if a… Read More ›
Welcome to the Hedonic Treadmill
Welcome to the Hedonic Treadmill. Population: All of Us. Sometimes I still get myself a little frisson of excitement about how cool the little gadget I’m carrying is, how chuffed I am to have my Todo list all organized on… Read More ›
What are specs?
For many people the need for the best possible specifications when buying a phone, computer or tablet ranks high in their purchase checklist. This is a normal thought process, particularly with computers, because the assumption is that the best speed… Read More ›
When it becomes normal
There is one thing guaranteed to happen to most people and that is boredom created by over-familiarity. In the case of smartphones that is not quite the case, but it is a kind of lethargy that is perhaps the biggest… Read More ›
