Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
This is not an article about passwords, even though that is what it looks like. Remember it is Friday and after a week of cyber security news we always try to ease you into the weekend with something lighter. Today more Professor Hannah Fry… Honestly I was looking for something …
Here is a short video explaining something I am sure all of us of a certain age knew about: This is one of the reasons for Electric Mountain. Is this retro-tech? More! That video was going to be it for this week’s “Because It’s Friday“, but as I was writing …
A “click bait” title for this week’s “Because It’s Friday” article. From the BBC archive comes an excellent Tomorrow’s World episode, hosted by James Burke, looking at the technology that kept people alive and working in Antartica in 1967. Every trick to either keep things warm or cold and plans …
Following on from the “Because It’s Friday” look at the Walkman – here is another even older tech film. Space age electronics. The Eagle has landed This is worth watching, Public Service Broadcasting’s exciting track about the Apollo 11 moon landing, complete with sampled commentary from mission control as the …
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There is a very odd reference in this 1989 article from the BBC Archive comparing using a Walkman to mental illness! But I am sure that is what happens when you turn something so basic into high-brow! It is interesting how the American advert manages to put a hyphen between …
