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• Can Technology End Poverty?

  By Shaun on November 29, 2016 • ( 0 )

  A ten-year-old boy named Dhyaneshwar looked up for approval after carefully typing the word “Alaska” into a PC. “Bahut acchaa!” I cheered—“very good.” It was April, 2004, and I was visiting a “telecenter” in the tiny village of Retawadi, three… Read More ›

• Wall-Mounted Desks

  By Shaun on November 29, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  I’m not generally a fan of wall-mounted desks because it’s often nicer to position as desk so the end user is not looking at the wall. But in some small spaces a wall-mounted desk is the best alternative. We’ve mentioned… Read More ›

• What did they think 2050 would be like in 1935?

  By Shaun on November 28, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Back before the public came to terms with the grim causal relationship between cigarettes and cancer, smoking was a jolly affair, whose pleasures extended well beyond the physical act. Smoking was sociable. Yes, there were certain situations in which three… Read More ›

• 1983 was exciting!

  By Shaun on November 28, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  It seems hard to imagine that the humble mouse needed a set of instructions back in 1983, but it must have been strangely exciting to use one for the first time as an adult. tweeted by Anatoly Shashkin.

• Mac App Store Scams

  By Shaun on November 28, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Try to put yourself into the mental state of a novice computer user. You have a brand new iMac, and you want to edit some Excel spreadsheets. In the dock you find that App Store you’ve heard so much about,… Read More ›

• What happened to the world for Tony Blair to make sense?

  By Shaun on November 28, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  “Open v closed is a really important debate today, because in a curious way the populism of the left and the populism of the right – at a certain point they meet each other. They tend to be isolationist. OK,… Read More ›

• Lenders Are Looking at Your Phone Data

  By Shaun on November 28, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Financial institutions, overcoming some initial trepidation about privacy, are increasingly gauging consumers’ creditworthiness by using phone-company data on mobile calling patterns and locations. The practice is tantalizing for lenders because it could help them reach some of the 2 billion… Read More ›

• How can one person compete with a device linked to everyone you’ve ever known?

  By Shaun on November 28, 2016 • ( 0 )

  Imagine that you are interviewing a candidate for a job in your office. You switch your mobile phone to silent mode and place it face down on a table several feet from where you and the candidate are sitting. This… Read More ›

• George Daniels, A Master Watchmaker & His Art

  By Shaun on November 28, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  George Daniels is a polarizing and fascinating figure. He was a watchmaker you hear stories about, one you idolize for his many confident successes, and one you try to emulate as a rags-to-riches type of self-made triumph on a human… Read More ›

• Fruit and vegetables skateboarding

  By Shaun on November 28, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  And why not. You can see more here.

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