by Jack Barrow | Feb 18, 2022 | Current Affairs, Technology
There isn’t a corporation in the world that isn’t considering its green credentials. Google claims on its search page that it has been carbon neutral since 2007 and everyone from Apple to Xerox put environmental priorities high on their lists of values. How much of...
by Jack Barrow | Jan 29, 2021 | Current Affairs, Politics, Technology, Thoughts and Observations
“Your Internet is getting disconnected…” That’s all I heard before I put the phone down on the recording of the rather improbably well-spoken girl with the posh English voice. This will be the fourth nuisance call I’ve had this morning. Four and counting. The first...
by Jack Barrow | Dec 11, 2019 | Current Affairs, Politics
I just went for my flu jab. As I left the nurse the following conversation ensued: ‘Don’t forget to vote tomorrow,’ said I. ‘Is it tomorrow?’ said she. ‘It is,’ said I. ‘Don’t forget to vote for looking after the...
by Jack Barrow | Apr 24, 2019 | Media, Thoughts and Observations
I recently started watching Series Three of The Expanse, the brilliant Sci Fi series about a future where humans have colonised the solar system, Mars is an independent planet in a cold war with Earth, and The Belt (asteroid belt) is inhabited by people who live...
by Jack Barrow | Aug 31, 2018 | Media, Technology, Thoughts and Observations
You clicked on that link on Facebook, you know that link, possibly clickbait but you wanted to see for yourself, after all it’s only a picture of an old shoe dug up from Roman times. But you don’t get the world’s most interesting shoe, you get a brief, tempting flash...
by Jack Barrow | Aug 14, 2018 | Media, Non Fiction, Pop Philosophy, Science, Travelogue, Writing
Tim Peake was on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning answering the question of, “Was the universe designed by a higher intelligence?” This was the way the question was posed to Britain’s latest astronaut by the BBC’s Justin Webb. Tim Peak’s Soyuz capsule is...
