F5.5G Leap-forward Development of Broadband in Africa The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa recently, under…
Ridley Scott directs a crowdsourced movie
Crowdsourcing, if you haven’t heard of it, is also known as the ‘cheap, lazy bastard way to get something done’. It’s a technique gleefully…
Activism or slacktivism: Is the web making it too easy?
When Sipho Hlongwane (@comradesipho), a writer and political and social commentator, proudly accepted the ANC Youth League’s disparaging moniker of “Desktop Activist” in March…
Facebook showing real potential as a search engine
With the recent improvements to Facebook’s analytics via the new Insights Dashboard, I did a bit of research into the current search volume on Facebook…
Is “The Singularity” the elite geeks’ version of “The Rapture”?
The Singularity is a belief that our technology will inevitably collide with our biology, and that this will give us mastery over our mortality….
