Help Bring Hello Hubs to South Africa
The Problem Across the globe, there are 134 million children between the ages of 7 through 18 who have never been to school. In sub-Saharan Africa, there are 34 million children not enrolled in primary school, which is more than all of the primary school children in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France […]
Shining a light on education
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The Italian physician and educator, Maria Montessori, famously once said: “Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavour always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence”; and now two girls are helping to ensure that this light continues […]
Superheroes, Superman and Synths
Recently I’ve been watching a new TV series from the UK, Humans. It shows an all too familiar future where robots (or Synths as they’re called in this show) are meant to aid humans in their daily lives with mundane tasks. Far away is the future predicted by Blade Runner, et al where AI robots […]
Linkedin LIONs no longer Roar
It’s about 10 years since I first joined LinkedIn, the social network for business professionals. Over the years it’s grown in leaps and bounds to over 350 million users. Not surprisingly LinkedIn it is not blocked in mainland China, and has a solid integration with the mobile messing app, Wechat. As one of the websites […]
Chappie is not Deus Ex Machina
Since I can remember I loved science fiction aka sci-fi stories. Maybe growing up on comic book superheroes helped. Usually Sci-Fi are stories without limits or boundaries. And yet the “science” part implies some possibility that it may happen, could happen, in some near or distance future. In recent years we’ve seen the excessive use […]