It is fascinating how science is catching up with what science fiction writers foresaw decades ago. I'm not sure whether that is a good thing, as the future of mankind was so many times in peril due to the same #technological advances the writers imagined... Playing with memories, while disrupting our ability to distinguish what is real from what was artificially imprinted on our brain is a popular notion at the core of many science fiction novels. Recently, researchers at th

I came across an advert on YouTube about a #social experiment with a number of couples. Imagine this: a paradisiacal beach and pool #destination, sensational weather but no #technological device whatsoever to record or #communicate with the outside world. Half the #couples had to undergo this 'difficult' #experiment without their #devices; the other half had the devices they would usually carry on a holiday trip. The ad is just a couple of minutes long but everyone can see th

A #language is a fluid. Constantly changing its shape and moulding itself to its #environment. Recent #technological #innovations have had a dramatic impact on our ways of #communicating and so our language has adapted to those changes. The three #letter #acronyms used in #SMS (such as OMG & LOL) have become so popular that they now exist in the #spoken language in their own right. Although the more elaborate versions of this (ROTFL etc.) still tend to be used only in #comput