January 2020

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“Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man. Better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster.” And so began each weekly episode of the ‘Six Million Do…
Put your hand up if you would like information on your mobile phone to be secure. Photos of your kids that you have taken on your phone to be kept private. E-mails from work about new product launches to remain just with employees. Posting informatio…
Henry Ellsworth, former Commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office, delivered his annual report to congress. In that report he stated: “The advancement of the arts, from year to year, taxes our credulity and seems to presage the arrival of that per…
One of the traits I most admire about the human race is the ability to be creative and innovative in solving problems. Go back to circa 3500 B.C. when the Mesopotamians invented the wheel or the Egyptians invented the nail as a fastener then jump to …
Chlorofluorocarbons. CFCs. The word doesn’t roll off the tongue – and it would be safe to say that before the eighties it was not a topic for common conversations at dinner parties. But in the eighties, we all suddenly became experts on C…
Have we seen enough yet? There are times, in life, when the evidence seems to be so overwhelming that the answer is obvious – yet, when it suits, humans have an incredible ability to obstinately refuse to acknowledge the obvious. Confirmation b…
Data shows that 92 per cent of all resolutions made in the heady euphoria of 1 January are unsuccessful so I thought I may as well start the New Year by breaking my recurring resolution. Every year I tell my readers it is simply too hard to make one-…
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