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Category Archives: Future views
Searching for Christmas peace and joy
The set up of my life has changed significantly – disruptively – over the past few years and hasn’t finished doing so yet. This means that this blog may not continue or may change its focus to follow my different … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental info., Featured sites, Future views, Uncategorized
Tagged Fun stuff, Mindfulness, Sustainability
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No disruptive searching here
Google’s alleged development of a censored search engine for China has been in the news lately and not least because many Google employees are very unhappy about the prospect of having been kept in the dark about this project, while … Continue reading
Robots are helping journalists write their articles
The Financial Times reported yesterday (12th Dec.) that the first articles jointly written by robots and humans are being published in the UK. In fact, the robot’s contribution seems to be largely that of fact-finder, providing statistical data for journalists’ articles. The … Continue reading
It’s hard to find something, if it’s not there anymore.
It’s also hard to find or recognize something if you don’t know what search terms to use, what it’s called or anything about it. Searching requires curiosity and interest. It’s about an intelligent and planned, strategic and enthusiastic way of … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental info., Future views, Latest news, People, Uncategorized
Tagged Future of search, Mindfulness, Science, Sustainability
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Saving libraries and searching skills
Caitlin Moran eloquently expresses in Caitlin’s Moranifesto: Save our Libraries why Libraries still have their place in the age of the internet, and why we shouldn’t be content with just “Googling it”. “Do we all want to be Googlesheep, herded … Continue reading
Another article in support of open access
I’ve posted several times on the open access movement which aims to end the practice of charging to read academic papers describing research which has usually been publicly funded in the first place. The latest case for open access is … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Featured sites, Future views, Latest news, Open access, Scientific sites
Tagged Academic, Copyright, Featured sites, Future of search, Science
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Public libraries are important – why?
Over recent years many famous authors have given their support to the public library sector as they try to help explain to the politicians and general public (especially those who rarely darken the doors of a public library) why we … Continue reading
Reading on-screen content: are you still with me or have you given up reading this?
Back in 2008 The Atlantic ran an article looking at what the internet is doing to our brains. The author wrote that he’d noticed that reading articles on-line was apparently affecting the way we take in information and was having … Continue reading
Posted in Digital books, Future views, Information literacy
Tagged Bibliophiles, Digital books, News sites
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Google news manoeuvers with a European flavour
News is a ubiquitous free and fee-based commodity on the web. There’s always a lot of it out there, with many duplicate and similar versions of the same story doing the rounds giving the appearance of even more news than … Continue reading
Will Virtual Reality one day be the new way to search?
If you want to understand the virtual reality “landscape”, you could hardly do better than have a read of a very interesting (and quite long) feature in The Verge which takes a look at the many worlds of virtual reality, … Continue reading
