Confluence of communications There was a time when a cell phone was used just for talking and a computer was used just for data access. Now, devices used for communication are also used for computing and vice versa. One word brought on the tidal change - convergence...
Love computers, not idolise them Weizenbaum did much more than writing only one long book. His book has dated very little, and nothing else shows so well how a humanist may love computers without idolising them...
Books tool to boost literary web offering A new digital book-browsing tool is to make the full works of about 500 authors, including Sebastian Faulks and Jacqueline Wilson, available to read and search online.
Sifting musical wheat from the pop chaff Nobody has time to listen to all the music that is released, so there are publications that filter the flood before it reaches the mainstream. At one time, New Musical Express and Rolling Stone magazine defined what was cool. Today, it's Pitchfork...
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