Tag Archives: technology

Wham! Bam!… Still full of spam!

At the World Economic Forum on 24 January 2004, Bill Gates promised that spam would be eradicated as a problem within 24 months. Follow this link to read about his three-stage plan to can spam, which generated plenty of headlines then.I expect the Microsoft Chairman to receive plenty of reminders about his bold prediction right… Read More »

Make it idiot-proof, and someone will make a better idiot

Somehow, after reading about Steve Johnson’s six-hour ordeal with the iPod, I lost my entire faith in technology’s promise to rescue mankind from all its miseries. If an alleged Internet critic with a respectable organisation like Chicago Tribune can struggle with an idiot-proof product, what hope does the hapless man in the street have? But… Read More »