Here’s a collection of some things that I’ve found interesting, noteworthy or curious this month.
I’m always banging on about the risks of future historians of our digital dark age/white noise. This article is a good exploration.
We were recently on holiday in the UK, and in one village that we visited, I tried to pay for parking online, but there was no signal, and we had no coins to pay directly. We ended up leaving, with me fuming and swearing. So I have a very small insight into the issues in this article about how our increasing digitisation risks excluding people.
There’s a lot around about AI and creativity but I liked this one.
As my new job involves looking forward to see what technology might mean for our future, I really enjoyed this look back at the emergence of something that is so much part of our everyday – professional presentation software.
Like its author, I am a converted emoji-sceptic, so I enjoyed this piece on the neuroscientific aspects of their use.