Free Thinking : The community
From tenantspin, residents John and Margo
-
Integrity in business
Two items in the press in the last week raise an interesting question mark against big business in this country.
The big Banks (who else) have been taken to task by the Office of Fair Trading on the issue of insurance relating to repayment of loans which most banks insist on.
The trading standards people say the insurance cover is not worth the paper it is written on. Now the whole issue of loan protection is being investigated and about time too.
-
Can technology replace the human brain?
I have been told hundreds, maybe thousands of times, that nobody is indispensable.
Is this how it will always be?
Will computers and robots become the rulers of the universe?
-
Live and let live
Through my association with the Tenantspin community group and being based in the FACT centre in Liverpool I come into contact and work with people from all ethnic groups.
They have become some of my closest friends and I enjoy being in their company.
I make this point because of two events recently in the news which have caused a lot of controversy, hence my observations.
-
Locked out with nowhere to go
That’s exactly how I felt last week, when for four days I could not use my Internet Browser.
Although I could continue typing documents and so forth, any research I needed had to be put on the back burner.
I now realise more than ever just how dependent we are on things technological.
-
The Disappearing Earth
The day North Korea detonated a nuclear device I and some compatriots attended a film show in the FACT Centre Liverpool, a showing of An Inconvenient Truth.
The show was put together by the former American Presidential candidate Al Gore and the theme was global warming.
-
Music and Technology
What I like doing when I’m relaxing is to listen to music of all kinds. Sad or happy, it doesn’t matter. The live sound of musical instruments being played by talented people who have studied for years is to me, very moving.
Yes, Composers of modern musicals are no doubt geniuses, but, they have all the sophisticated computerisation to help them.
-
Democracy - Benefit or Hindrance
On 27th September a High Court judge in London made a ruling that a very determined lady, Elizabeth Pascoe aged 60 living in the Edge Hill area of Liverpool was having her human rights breached by attempts to demolish her home under a CPO. This edict affects 500 other homes and householders many of whom were on her side.
Then the wheels of what we call democracy went into motion.
-
The Impossible Dream?
What a sight. The young and the old, the fit and wheelchair-users
The famous and the ordinary, the talented and the run of the mill. Gorillas, chickens and not a scowl in sight. Even a cyber man, Dr Who style waving cheerfully at humans whom he would normally reduce to cinders.
-
Did Technology Almost Kill Him?
The world must know of the tragic accident which almost cost Richard Hammond his life.
I can’t imagine what his wife and children must have felt, knowing that he was performing a feat which could have destroyed him and them.
The thing is, how far should anyone go to prove a point
Free Thinking weblogs
Archive
Categories
Recent Entries
Recent Comments
- Fitz on The best and worst of TV
- fitz on The best and worst of TV
- Bill Drayton on Liverpool and the slave trade
- Rob on The best and worst of TV
- Clayton on Is Football a sport?
Feeds
The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ is not responsible for the content of external internet sites
