Skill Zone News issue 29
We have just completed a general election and the next one is five years away. Five years is a long time in politics, and even longer in computing. Is this the last time we will see paper in the polling booth? In five years time, will paper be replaced by voting terminals, or will we all be expected to vote through our mobile phones?
28th May 2010
The demise of print
If you were considering launching a book or a magazine in 2010, would you choose paper or the internet as your publishing medium?
Tweet in haste, repent at leisure
We've all said stupid things we would rather forget, but with the rise of social networking, people are now saying stupid things that the whole world remembers for ever and a day.
Protecting your privacy
Whilst the internet has done many good things, it has without doubt eroded some of our privacy. Are law makers finally catching up with the need to properly protect it?
Think of a number higher than 235
The system of patents for inventions was intended to encourage innovation, but the US patent system is so badly broken that it does the exact opposite. And because of global markets, we all pay the cost of US patents.
Beavers from space
Anyone who remembers the 1960s might also remember those futuristic predictions of flying cars replacing buses and three small pills replacing the three course meal. Most of these predictions were quite silly, but one vision from more than 40 years ago turned out to be remarkably accurate.