About Lee Rickwood
Lee Rickwood covers developments in media and technology with particular interest in how such developments affect our social, political and economic activities and interactions.
‘Who wants to learn more about Fourier transforms?’ asked math professor Jason Brown, expecting – and getting – little response.
‘OK, well, who wants to sing Beatles songs?!!”
by Lee Rickwood
Without your explicit permission, commercial electronic messages cannot be sent to you. If you say, ‘Hey, telemarketers, don’t call me’, they should not call you. If you say, ‘I don’t want your e-mails’, they shouldn’t send you any.
by Lee Rickwood
by Lee Rickwood
ideacity presentations are not structured in a formal sense, but certain common threads often connect one speaker with the next – watch out, you’ll get caught!
While there’s always a chance to learn about cutting edge technologies at ideacity, the conference is also a place to connect with important ideas at the heart of our society, and new perspectives on the human condition.
by Lee Rickwood
The implication is that we do not have such a safe secure and stable ‘Net here now – and there’s plenty of news reports and tech studies that seem to support that conclusion.
By Lee Rickwood
Volunteer lobby groups are critical of the very make-up of investigative panels looking at possible Wi Fi health issues, much less the conclusions.
by Lee Rickwood
Doctors are seeing “digital dementia” in people whose technology does too much of their thinking for them.
by Lee Rickwood
Think Google Glass is cool? This new museum has ‘video glasses’ from Sony that are like 20 years old.
Smartwatches? Ha – we’ve been able to strap a TV on our arm for decades, and there’s a small device here to prove it!
by Lee Rickwood