Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter The early 2000s were not a good time for technology. After entering the new millennium amid the impotent panic of the Y2K bug, it wasn’t long before the
We take it for granted that technology brings people closer together and improves our access to essential products and services. If you can’t imagine life without your smartphone, it’s easy to forget that people who can’t or don’t want to engage with the latest technology are being left behind. For example, there have recently been
It is not clear if the system failed to spot the impending floods or whether the government simply failed to act on the information received but an investigation is continuing. But on Chinese social media, some questioned whether such smart city tech was a waste of money. UK company Previsico offers its own flood warning
If memory loss is affecting your everyday life, there are a number of devices that can help. They usually work by giving a visual, verbal or audible reminder to do something. There is more information on the next few pages about electronic devices that can help. However, there are also non-electronic solutions to help with
What do you think of when you hear the word “technology”? Do you think of jet planes and laboratory equipment and underwater farming? Or do you think of smartphones and machine-learning algorithms? Venture capitalist Peter Thiel guesses it’s the latter. When a grave-faced announcer on CNBC says “technology stocks are down today,” we all know
At a time when we’re reliant on technology for everything from exercise classes to speaking to loved ones, it’s also been key in keeping one British tradition going – the pub quiz. So next time you fire up your phone, tablet or laptop for House Party, Google Hangouts, Zoom or Messenger, test your friends and
Container technology, also simply known as just a container, is a method to package an application so it can be run, with its dependencies, isolated from other processes. The major public cloud computing providers, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform have embraced container technology, with container software having names including the
In the story of technology, where do you begin? In my new book, co-written with Julien de Salaberry, called Living in the Age of the Jerk, we go back in time, way back. But for the sake of this article, I begin the story of key events in technology with Charles Babbage — who designed
All manner of technology surrounds us. From our personal laptops, tablets, and phones to behind-the-scenes technology that furthers medicine, science, and education. Technology is here to stay, but it’s always morphing and expanding. As each new technology enters the scene, it has the potential to improve lives. But, in some cases, it also has the
Many optimists believe that technology can transform society, whether it’s the internet or the latest phone. But as Tom Chatfield argues in his final column for BBC Future, the truth about our relationship with technology is far more interesting. Lecturing in late 1968, the American sociologist Harvey Sacks addressed one of the central failures of