By Liani Maasdorp, University of Cape Town South Africa’s film industry is the oldest in Africa and one of the oldest in the world, having started in 1896, soon after the Lumiere brothers’ famous first commercial film screening in 1895. The industry is one of the more...
The Space Jam website circa 1997 – all those planets are clickable. Internet Archive Jo Jung, Edith Cowan University The World Wide Web was invented almost 30 years ago by Tim Berners Lee to help people easily share information around the world. Over the following...
She makes it look so easy. Shutterstock. Dave Cook, UCL The phrase “digital nomad” summons the trope of joyful millennials who escape the daily grind to travel the world, working with laptops on far flung beaches. Bullish statistics are regularly regurgitated: “There...
Is freelancing the future of employment? Pixabay, CC BY-SA Anthony Hussenot, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (UNS) Freelancers represent 35% of the United States workforce. In the European Union, the rate is 16.1%. Both figures demonstrate the same global trend: from...
The desktop is the past, the future is in the cloud. Ruben de Rijcke, CC BY Bill Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University With the sale of first its desktop PC business and now its server business to Chinese partner Lenovo, IBM has come full circle. By exiting the...