Remember ‘shopping’? Not for food or clothes, things which one really wants to select by sight. I mean, shopping for the perfectly-packaged, homogenous items Jeff Bezos targetted as being ideal internet-commerce stock. DVDs, books, CDs (who even buys CDs now?). I used to really enjoy that kind of shopping. I remember as a teenager (yes, …
I’ve already written an article for today about Ada Lovelace Day and how important it is (and also how heinous The Big Bang Theory sitcom is – a message I really feel passionately about getting out to the public). But I realise that what I wrote doesn’t really meet the brief of writing about a woman in …
I’ve had two articles in newspapers in the past few days, one looking backward and bemoaning what we’re about to lose, and one excitedly looking forward to the future of books. I do think it’s possible to hold both those positions at once. You don’t have to give up on technology in order to believe that the past has …
Fascinating set of tests from Harvard which measure implicit (subconscious) preferences – whether you subconsciously prefer white people over black, for example, or straight people over gay.https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/measureyourattitudes.html Apparently, I have a strong preference for Judaism over all other religions. This despite the fact that my writing is supposedly dangerous to it. Each man kills the thing he loves, you …