Category: Technology
These articles cover technology, its affect upon us, and ponderings on its future.
- AI is the new SEO
- Tech has its fads, and with each we get a plethora of talking heads ever-willing to enlighten us.
- Accessing encrypted communications
- There are two aspects that don't seem to be part of the discussion around law enforcement access to encrypted communications, but both are legitimate concerns.
- Artificial intelligence
- Artificial intelligence is about replicating the adaptive reasoning process that humans or higher animals use. For that, we need to understand what intelligence is, and how it is used.
- Audio recording
- Audio recording has its own special requirements for hardware that are the opposite of almost every other computer use.
- Biological systems
- Biological systems have been developed over millions of years, learning to deal with changes in climate and environment, and adapting to what foods are available and what predators to avoid.
- Biometrics
- As people have difficulty using secure passwords, alternatives have been sought, with biometrics being hailed because they use peoples' natural uniqueness.
- Divitis – its overlooked cause
- Much has been made of the very-unsemantic div HTML tag being overused on the web. Well, it is because of a simple inconsistent choice made very early on.
- Driverless cars
- Driverless cars are where governments have to take a holistic approach to road safety, rather than a manufacturer-centric one.
- Early browser wars
- Many seem to look at the early browser wars between Netscape and Microsoft as some sort of early cyber-bullying, but as a HTML developer at that time, I made the decision to drop using Netscape because it just wasn't anywhere near as useful as Internet Explorer.
- Finger counting to 282 million
- Even since we started becoming conscious of having a use for the stuff lying around us, we found we need to keep count of them. The obvious tally machine was our fingers, and so the digital age began!
- No coding is coding
- Many hope to avoid traditional coding by using so-called no-coding frameworks.
- Super-fast non-volatile memory
- Computer storage has been of two types; fast, but which requires power to retain its contents (primary), and slow drives which remember without power (secondary). But what happens when the slow drives become as fast as primary?
- Technology and the loss of agency
- We are increasingly dependent upon technology for more of lives, but we are not getting any better equipped for life.
- Using an 8K TV as a monitor
- It may seem like overkill, but an 8K TV allows the sort of smooth rendering of text that makes using a computer all day a lot less of a strain.
- What is it about records?
- Digital forms of music have taken over from analog, but there is still a devoted following of records.