October 2017 – Bit Cafe

Technology talk

Is technology making you forget basic skills?

Here’s an interesting post from the Lifehacker website: The Skills We’ve Lost to Technology (and How to Get Them Back). People argue that before technology ruled our lives, we were happier, smarter, and better at general living. That utopian vision of the past is a bit too rose tinted, but the point remains that we’ve lost […]

Technology talk

Perplexed by computers? You’ll never guess who else was

“Computers are hard!” If your computer seems confusing, it’s because you’re just too old, or too non-technical, or just not able to understand that box of circuits, right? Nope. Jony Ive – that’s a knighted Sir Jony Ive these days – is the renowned mastermind designer behind Apple’s Mac computers, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and other products that […]