The tyranny of technology

Originally published on spiked. The contrast couldn’t be more striking. Rwanda, 13 years after its bloody civil war, is pouring money into information technology (IT)

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Disabling innovation

Originally published on spiked. Website publishers and designers like myself have been targeted under the act since October 1999. In a recent survey of 1000

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Touchy-feely toasters

Originally published on spiked. Designers and scientists are eager to place emotions at the centre of products and computing. International conferences organise around incorporating emotion

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What’s the big idea?

Originally published on spiked. What is it about politicians and the internet? Many are keen to explore the possibilities of using the net to interact

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Dean and not heard

Originally published on spiked. The Democratic Party contest to find a challenger to George W Bush for the November US presidential elections is well under

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‘Ethnography’ exposed

Originally published on spiked. The saying goes: ‘In order to understand a man, first you must walk a mile in his shoes.’ This Christmas, Boots

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What iCan can’t do

Originally published on spiked. UK home secretary David Blunkett has suggested setting up ‘community advocates’ to deal with unaccountable policing (1). Apparently the police want

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Dark-sky thinking

Originally published on spiked. ‘What is the future of creativity?’, asked the prestigiously titled World Creative Forum in London recently (1). The inaugural gathering in

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