This is our five minute guide to what Google and the UK government knows about you, and how you can get rid of it!
Machines are designed to consistently do what they’re told, but humans just aren’t wired in the same way. Are you being treated like a robot?
Is your employer tracking you? Are you – a chatty slacker or an enthusiastic and collaborative team member, an habitual procrastinator or a thoughtful planner? Now, your company may be counting your tea-breaks, chats with colleagues or catch-ups on the news to drive efficiency in your workplace. How does that make you feel? Workplace tracking…
The end of a boom?
A financial commentator once said: “it’s either the future, or end of the current tech cycle must be nigh”. Of course once industry experts begin to say things like that, it usually means a boom is just coming to an end.
It may be that the smart fridge – along with a few other devices – just does not benefit enough from the introduction of smart technology to make the whole thing worthwhile. Especially at such a high price point!
Did you read recently that Burger King put out a television advertisement in the US which used language designed to trigger Google Assistant? Read about the pitfalls of linking to Wikipedia.
The world is becoming increasingly automated in all sorts of ways, what’s more the automated is becoming autonomous. Can we really rely entirely on automated systems, or are we exposing ourselves to unknown risks?
These days it seems as though all the information we could ever need is available at the drop of a hat, with a huge wealth of the world’s collective knowledge just a click away.
So we might wonder, with so much information available at our fingertips, does our memory still matter?
An intelligent house is easily built these days, for example, you can have a camera set up in your hallway and a lock controlled by your smartphone, so when the delivery driver turns up you can let them in remotely, with the camera monitoring them. You can go on from that to something spectacular…
