South Africa’s creators, coders and founders are under pressure to do more with less. Whether you’re running a meme page from Mitchells Plain, debugging…
What Glass means for Google
Project Glass is a perfect example of what Google calls “moonshot thinking” – the type of thinking required to take on global-scale problems, define…
Big Data loses its hipster shackles, is set to go mainstream
The term Big Data has been thrown around pretty willfully over the past couple of years. It makes sense too, after all, petabytes of…
How Big Data is being used to record the future
“The past doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes”, reads the famous Mark Twain quote in the introduction of a research paper suitably titled Mining…
A smart new world: the future we were promised is almost here
At the end of 2012, Joshua Topolsky wrote an editorial for The Verge entitled “Reasons to be excited“. In the piece, Topolsky stated that…
