The change in the culture of childhood and parenting is something most adults these days can feel. What may be harder to grasp is why this shift happened.
How children lost the right to roam in four generations
When George Thomas was eight he walked everywhere. It was 1926 and his parents were unable to afford the fare for a tram, let alone the cost of a bike and he regularly walked six miles to his favourite fishing haunt without adult supervision
When we’re in the middle of a cultural swirl, it’s normal to believe that everyone else is too. That’s part of the magic of a cultural swirl–it’s our friends, our work…
Trump's menacing message returns with a sinister twist:"We are going to do things to you that have never been done before" | Boing Boing
“We are going to do things to you that have never been done before,” might sound intriguing or alarming, depending on who’s speaking. In this case, it’s Donald Trump, and th…
Artificial intelligence is poised to transform entertainment as we know it, from blockbusters to pornography. But the power is still in the hands of humans.
A story in the New York Times today by Jonathan Swan, Charlie Savage, and Maggie Haberman outlined how former president Donald Trump and his allies are planning to create a dictatorship if voters return him to power in 2024. The article talks about how Trump and his loyalists plan to “centralize more power in the Oval Office” by “increasing the president’s authority over every part of the federal government that now operates, by either law or tradition, with any measure of independence from political interference by the White House.”
First International Hacktivist ‘Cyberwar’? Online Conflict & the Kosovo War
The Kosovo War lasted from February 1998 through to June 1999. In parallel with the brutal physical conflict was an online battle between hackers from Russia, the US, China, Holland and parts of th…