I want to tell you a little story. In the early 1950s, the British government thought they would run out of coal in 20 years or so. Coal was the main source of energy in Britain at the time. Nearly all of their electricity was produced in coal-fired power stations. We all know now that […]
Who thinks computers are easy to understand? I mean, really easy; so that all their functions and operations are second nature to you. Now, I can’t see you all, but I would guess that there are very few hands in the air. Maybe none! I don’t have my hand up, and I’m supposed to be […]
I have an Amazon AI device. I won’t mention its name right now because it will interrupt me to ask what I want. But I find it quite handy for keeping track of my schedule and reminding me of things that need to be done. Let’s try it out. Alexa. Remind me to call Fred […]
So, here’s the question: is artificial intelligence dangerous? Well, it certainly can be. Witness the fact that the two Boeing 737 MAX aircraft that crashed in 2018 and 2019 were taken over by an autopilot that had made a wrong decision. 346 people died in those two crashes. And they died because the autopilot “thought” […]
You know, marketing is pretty simple stuff – you want to sell something to someone, so you make the thing look attractive and they will buy it. Except, that’s not entirely true. In fact, it’s actually backwards thinking. Let me explain. There have been a number of huge product successes in the last fifty years; […]
Well, it’s a cultural thing. No matter what humans get involved with, they like to make it their own. When we start something new, we like to mold it, color it, shape it, change it. Look at the fashion industry. Wow – what a myriad of changes that industry goes through. Can you imagine going […]
Who could possibly have predicted how popular Facebook was going to be, before it was launched? Or how unbelievably fast it would be accepted throughout the world by both young and old? Today, of course, there are several social media platforms that people use, but users are tending to migrate from one to another over […]
Today’s software is a mess. Computer programs are far too complicated, have far too many things that you have no idea how to use and always seem to be coming up with errors that make no sense at all.
The Main Menu is the part I am showing you here – the File, Home, Insert, etc. across the top. And its success was, indeed, dramatic! It far exceeded all of its targets and generated a panic buying frenzy, the like of which had never been seen in the world of computing before that. There […]