The world is shrinking. The tyranny of distance has all but disappeared. And, as the world shrinks, the population becomes denser yet decidedly more insular. Not surprisingly, they have learnt that it costs money to breathe fresh air (Tokyo Oxygen shops), drive anywhere (road tolls), go to the beach (parking). Every time they turn [...]
I commute by road when I am not catching the train. That is typically at least a one hour journey if I go to the UoW campus or a two hour journey if I go to Sydney. I listen to a lot of podcasts during those trips. One that I regularly find quite brilliant is [...]
Hollywood is not the only casualty of P2P. In 1998, Forrester Research published a report on the online “adult content” industry which speculated on an industry-wide aggregate figure of $8-10 billion The prefix porno- is derived from the Greek term for a prostitute; hence, it may be argued that pornography is as old [...]
Comparing Human Synapse activity with Internet activity shows surprising similarity Picture if you will, the human brain – powered by electrical synapses, driving complicated biological based circuitry often triggered by external stimuli (smells, pictures, texture). Neurons, or nerve cells, each have a pair of projections—the axon and the dendrite, which transmit and receive impulses, [...]
Slattery IT had an event tonight at the Sydney Museum. (Great venue by the way!) After the panel discussion, which was excellent, I went across the road to have a drink with the people who had attended including the panelists. I got talking to a group – not surprisingly women – and was quite amazed [...]