The quotations I read this year that I felt were worth saving and sharing. They aren’t necessarily from this year (some of them date back to the 19th Century) but they were new to me. Most of them, in some way, are linked to technology.
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People Don’t Change
I’d like to present a recording of my latest talk, People Don’t Change. It’s about the history of modern human behaviour, and technology, and how the meeting of those two affects society today. I presented it at Front End London in August, and I’m really proud of it because I’ve been thinking about it for a long time—if […]
Why Is Every Company Making a Digital Assistant?
Many of the largest technology companies have introduced a digital assistant. This is due to the way consumer internet technology is changing, and is set to change even more in the coming years.
How a Google Maps Update Lead to the Promotion of Fringe Views
Google Maps got a small update on Thursday. A zoomed-out view now shows a globe instead of the old, less accurate, Mercator projection. They announced it in a tweet: A few tech publications noticed, and wrote articles about it, treating it as the useful but ultimately relatively unimportant feature that it is. Mashable’s Zooming out on Google Maps now shows […]