by Derek Morrison, 27 September 2009 Wilf Self’s review of the life of J.G.Ballard on BBC R4 last night (Archive on 4 – Self on Ballard) contained some direct quotes from the late author whose works included Myths of the Near Future and whose 1984 novel/auto-biography was the engine behind Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun. […]
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Generation ‘A’
September 16th, 2009
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More food for thought. “And Google is scanning every book on the planet. Everything will be scanned into computers the size of Kansas owned by Google, and everything will become searchable — but why would anyone want to search? Because it’s all just data, digital crap floating around. In that environment, young people won’t want […]
Technology doesn’t necessarily makes things better
September 6th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 6 September 2009 Something for us all to ponder I feel, not just for camera phones. “It’s funny how in the end, technology doesn’t always make things better, it just makes it more accessible …” David Bailey on camera phones (Guardian, 3 September 2009) Download article as PDF
