Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Are you old enough to have been told, when you were at school, that everyone would have flying cars in the 21st Century? I am. So, articles on flying cars have been quite popular here on Smart Thinking and Octagon Technology. Swimming Cars When I saw this article about cars …
Have you ever wondered how the first straight edge was made, without a straight edge? Let Adam Savage (of Myth Busters fame) offer up an explanation using rocks. You should watch up until 6:18 for the full explanation of how to rub, but feel free to watch the whole video …
Continue reading “Because It’s Friday – “The Origins of Human Precision is in Rubbing””
Because It’s Friday is all about finding something interesting to ease all of us into the weekend, following a week of usually stressful cyber security news. I have been away on leave for the last few weeks and space has taken centre stage whilst I have been away, with some …
Continue reading “Because It’s Friday – It’s all about the moon”
In a week when I have been talking about risk, just about everywhere, online, with clients and in our own staff meetings, it seems only right that one of my favourite YouTube channels produces a video on the risk with rockets. The footage of unmanned rockets exploding is spectacular, have …
Last week we looked at the internet of 1994, this week we are looking at an “internet” of the 1970s as shown on Tomorrow’s World. For those younger readers; Tomorrow’s World was a popular TV programme on BBC looking at science and technology – it ran for 38 years. It …
