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The Distraction of our Digital Eyes
As the world evolves our need to consume information grows at an exponential rate. Since the advent of the screen our for appetite for smaller, better screens to display information has increased. Developments in Virtual and Augmented Reality have provided a way of displaying information in different formats. We have in recent times been distracted by…
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Sageous Advice from Daily Stoics
Furthering my Personal Journalling I have decided that for 2020 I would give the “Daily Stoic” book and journal a go. I am doing this along side my normal daily journaling and keeping the two separate for now at least. I’m up to Journal number 28 with 4380 pages written so far and still going…
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Personal Knowledge Management System – Revised for 2020
As the new year has begun, its time to review my Personal Knowledge Management System (PKMS) on how I consume information and knowledge, I have blogged about this before and have updated for 2020. I still split and keep apart my personal and professional lives on Social Media, although occasionally they may cross where appropriate.…
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Knowledge Fit for 2020
Here we are at the start of 2020 and the time of many New Years resolutions and good intentions. A good proportion of these will be about dieting and getting fit, but what about getting a learning plan for the new year and boosting your knowledge. Depending on your life, career path this can be…
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Six Lessons on Bouncing Back
Occasionally I have written about supporting STEM and Scouting in my blog around computing and science, however this piece from Bear Grylls in the Times newspaper in response to a Young Peoples survey has swayed me to write about it. At a recent Scout meeting the context of this survey was explained to the Scouts,…
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A night at the Museum – Late Session
I recently had the opportunity to help run a stand at one of the Science Museum in London, Lates sessions with some colleagues. The topic of the table was “Privacy vs National Security”. This was a drop in table to provoke discussion around this topic. The main point of this topic was to engage with the…
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Transforming operations with mixed reality – Future Decoded 2019
This year at Microsoft Future Decoded 2019 I joined Microsoft on the Live TV with a colleague to discuss “Transforming operations with mixed reality”. Here is the video: The full days playbacks from the event can be found at https://futuredecoded.microsoft.com/content/live
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Neural Interfaces – How far should we go?
A report out today from The Royal Society looks at the history, advancements, challenges and risks of neural interface technology. The report asks for input from the general public via a consultation on what their views in shaping the future of neural interface regulation. We have visualised the connection of humans and machines in Science…
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Facial Recognition – here to stay?
Love it or Hate it Facial Recognition technology is here to stay. What is now being recongnised is a need for governance and controls over systems that use it and in line with any current country legislations and data laws. The ability to recongnise objects and faces is not new, but an evolving technology that…
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Moving to a world of Interactive Viewer Choices
Whether it be books, visual or audio, we have been kept on the edge of our seats by gripping storylines and turned off by uninteresting ones that don’t grasp our attention. The ability to choose storylines has been around for sometime now with adventure books. My favorite was “Deathtrap Dungeon” by Ian Livingstone from the…