In the 1960s, Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan developed a theoretical framework for understanding media in terms not only of its contents, but also its characteristics, which he expressed through the phrase “the medium is the message”. McLuhan’s pioneering work...

Quality can take many forms. If you’re an avid reader, you want the content of what you’re reading to be free of spelling mistakes, grammatical errors and poor syntax. When you listen to music on your favourite streaming service, you expect crisp, clear audio. Or just...

Estate living has for long been heralded as the final bastion of the truly secure and serene residential setup, with the convergence of community and comfort in a mostly-guarded environment making the cosseted boundaries of the modern residential estate an...

Saving time = a simpler, less complicated life How valuable is time? As such an abstract – one could even say arbitrary – concept, this can be quite difficult to qualify in any meaningful way. As evidence, one need only look at how time is expressed, used and...

This has been another uncertain year, and the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we live, bringing about a new normal that has begun bedding down as more and more people work from home in an effort to curtail the spread of the pernicious virus and we remain...

While changes to the macro-environment have historically been glacial, with factors such as fiscal policy and GDP taking time to filter through to the point where they affect top-level business decisions, the past twenty months or so have seen significant disruptions...

From the Lowvelder: "Scores of eager viewers gathered online on October 20 as access automation company, Centurion Systems, unveiled the latest products in its highly innovative SMART range via a virtual launch the company is calling a resounding success. Centurion...

Much like Bruce Springsteen, the rolling power outages of the past couple of months had many of us “dancing in the dark”. But, while the Boss’s rockabilly anthem to a lost generation contemplated some pretty weighty existential questions, the darkness brought about by...

We are living in an age of what has been cleverly called “technological bounty”. This means that technology is so plentiful, and so compelling, that it makes up a considerable part of our social architecture, and it’s certainly enabled some brilliant thinkers,...

While every season certainly has its virtues, none seems to capture the imagination and creative spirit of the artistically-inclined quite like spring. From classic poetry to contemporary art, the blushing beauty of spring is enough to make anyone wax lyrical and,...

It’s no secret that technology (and therefore the world) is changing at an incredible pace. The things that must have seemed like science fiction to past generations are now very much a reality as machines race ahead and accomplish astonishing feats that are nothing...

If one had to plot human social development over the past ten thousand years or so on a graph, one would notice something very interesting: the line remains more or less straight for thousands of years, indicating very slow progress and then, suddenly, it bends...

The Digital Age, the Second Machine Age, the Fourth Industrial Revolution – whatever you want to call it, there’s no denying the fact that technology has been the thrust behind the forward momentum that has led humanity to explore ever more innovative and imaginative...

From spacey neon colours to synth-laden soundtracks, the aesthetic of the 1980s left an indelible mark on human culture, and nostalgia for the era is evident in contemporary media. However, the decade of Oxford shirts, scrunchies and leg warmers also gave us some of...