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Windmills and electric cars are not the answer to zero carbon, but your shoes might be

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...

International telephone scammers, Black Lives Matter and geopolitics

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...

Don’t set up a Facebook PAGE based on your domain name

by Jack Barrow | Jan 3, 2019 | Social Media, Technology, Thoughts and Observations

I can now reveal, it’s official, Facebook are actually evil. I’m not just talking about the misuse of your personal data, possibly allowing foreign powers to interfere with democratic processes or even all those pictures of cats. Worse than that, if you allow them to,...

Telephones as tools of social isolation

by Jack Barrow | Oct 15, 2018 | General Blog, Technology, Thoughts and Observations

I don’t visit my friends any more. When I were a lad we used to have callers. We had a living room with the TV and the coal fire, it was somewhere to live and entertain. When people arrived, the TV would be turned off and the kettle would be turned on. Years ago,...

Has GDPR ruined the Internet?

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...

Are IT professionals guilty of magical thinking?

by Jack Barrow | Feb 15, 2018 | Magic, Science, Technology, Thoughts and Observations

In my coming travelogue (too long in the pipeline) I discuss two ways of looking at and dealing with the world, that I describe as rational and irrational approaches. The irrational approach is often described as magical thinking. Wikipedia defines magical thinking as...
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