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Web 2.0 wasn’t what most people think it is
Web 2.0 wasn’t what most people think it is, or at least it means slightly different things to different people. Read more…
Articles by Jeremy Wagstaff
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Could hypernormalisation explain why the US has become so polarised?
Our new environment in which disinformation, misdirection and the hypernormalisation of ambiguity, uncertainty, and alternative facts thrive. Read more…
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Cellphone and screen addiction – COVID’s other long shadow
One of the most invidious, and unnecessary, costs of COVID-19 will be for the generation of kids uneducated and lost to screen addict Read more…
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Despite being told otherwise, did we ever really get rid of walled gardens?
The internet as a commercial entity has spent more of its life dominated by companies determined on building walled gardens. Read more…
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There is Google, and there is Chrome, and there’s the illusion of choice
When it comes to search engines it’s Google’s world, which means we’re always leaking data to them, and some of us search for other options. Read more…
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Working from home has been a relative success but it’s about to get ugly
Working from home has been a relative success story of these Covid-19 times, but from here on in it’s going to get ugly. Read more…
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Technology has failed me – still no app for this simple task 35 years on!
The reality is that 35 years on there is still no app that allows you to draw lines on a page and then add pieces to it wherever you want. Read more…
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Change is coming, life will never be the same again – all so easy to predict!
People behave in unpredictable ways and this should give us pause before we start predicting what the world will look like after the virus. Read more…
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Could the ‘subscription economy’ survive a recession?
The subscription model, and the subscription economy it generates, survive a recession as a discretionary spend, easily unsubscribed? Read more…
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Apple filled a void in your ears, and it’s become massive
This is all of Apple’s doing. They created the wireless earphone market singlehandedly, and now they dominate it. Read more…
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Technology is changing the way we work rapidly – are you ready?
It’s tempting nowadays to think that technology is redefining work, and not in a good way, but I realise this is just one side of things. Read more…
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Video subscription models may not be all they seem to be
Problem with video subscription services, unlike music you can listen to many times – you can only watch so many murder-set-in-rustbelt-town documentaries. Read more…
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Can we look forward to a battery-free future?
Most electronic devices are either connected to the electricity grid or have a battery in them, but what if they could find their own energy? Read more…
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The future of work – it’s not as bad as you might think!
The freelance economy has grown in the past decade to be a vast continent in the landscape of the future of work, mostly unnoticed by governments. Read more…
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Get ready for Volocopters, UAMs and eVTOLS
Acronyms you need to get used to: UAM, for Urban Air Mobility, think flying cars, or helicopters and drones that carry people like the Volocopter or eVTOLs. Read more…
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Will electromagnetic radiation from 5G be bad for you?
5G has reignited discussions whether mobile signals or electromagnetic radiation are bad for us — both from cell towers and from the devices themselves. Read more…
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Don’t expect 5G to rock your world any time soon
So telcos need something new. Hence 5G. But how are they going to make money out of it when 4G didn’t deliver. Why do they think 5G will be any different? Read more…
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Suffering subscription fatigue yet? You soon will be!
The term ‘subscription fatigue’ is already a common one with so many new services offered, but at what point do we tire of the subscription model? Read more…
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5G is hot – just a little too hot for connected devices
5G promises a lot, but something the industry isn’t addressing is that the devices themselves heat up. A lot. Read more…