filled with fake news and videos that are made in front of computers that can fool you online, with made-up statistics and even invented official organisations or organisations invented for the purpose of misleading, where does one go to find out facts? Wikipedia is trying to promote knowledge and fails time-and-time again. Many papers are…
Tag: Internet
The Race to Understand
I always wondered how people can see the same facts and draw different conclusions. Then i realised how much conditioning goes on in schools around the world and what flags can be used for. Then I saw how enmity is transferred unencumbered from generation to generation. Then I saw how class division is fostered and…
We Have Arrived
We have come to the place where you cannot believe either what you see on the Internet or what you are being told you are seeing. It has gone way beyond the jokey singing penis of the mid-1990s. Now you can see real people doing unreal things, real things transposed in time and place to…
9 Days
Without the internet and I went back to reading – a very interesting book by the American Harold Rosenberg, whose sensitivity to the visual artists in remarkable. I wish I had that depth of aesthetic. In the outage I worried about emails but did not miss them. Strange really. Now it is all repaired and…
What’s in a Name?
I used to think it amusing people would change the spelling of their names or drop letters so as to make the name less familiar and obvious. To stand out from the crowd. Then the internet came along and singular names with no other users have become the gold dust of web addresses, internet searches…
Back in the Day
the world wide web was conceived as a resource for information and having been created by scientists the idea that false information should be shared was not even in their minds. Mistaken data that needed to be corrected by others but the inspiration was it would become an international resource even more important than libraries…
Psychology
I met a psychology student on set yesterday and we talked and while talking I said one of the challenges of research on the human brain is to find out why we make up stories about what it is to be human. She asked me what we had made up. I immediately replied god then…
The Journalistic Struggle
I have always been something of an admirer of people who go to war just to get the story for the people back home. It has been a very important part of the world realising what soldiers have always known – there is no glory is victory because it is gained over too many dead….
Taking Liberties
Back in the 1980s when the internet was a baby (I was not there) I was told the places people hanged out in were abusive, tough and anything goes places. A lot of the people who were there moved into forums of various kinds where much of the same attitude prevailed especially as the rest…
I Can Only Guess
at how much the banks and businesses are losing to online hacking. My log-ins to ordinary sites have now instituted yet another layer of security and a few people have had the same experience I had, of money being taken through the debit card and neither the police nor the bank fraud department going to…