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Gamification and your life

Gamification and your life

One of the trends TomorrowToday has been tracking for several years is that of Gamification. Simply put, this reflects that reality that just as social networking, search engines, and online media have changed the way we live, so too has the prevalence of computer...

New Year, New Start

New Year New Start… I won’t start with a ‘Happy New Year’ salutation as a recent online forum suggested January 11th is the last ‘official day’ to use that greeting – glad to hear that it was done online rather than a government sanctioned international select...

Cyber Bullying: Are you ready for this?

Cyber Bullying: Are you ready for this?

Parents, do you know what 420, TDTM and GNOC mean in cyber speak? Whether you do or don’t, there’s a good chance your child does – 420 means marijuana, TDTM means Talk Dirty to Me, and GNOC means Get Naked on Cam. This language, which includes a P991 (parent alert),...

No fracking please we are British

No fracking please we are British

The heat surrounding the debate, protesting and exploration for Shale Gas in the UK is on the rise. On the 10th January last year, I posted a blog predicted that shale gas would revolutionise the world and that the UK and it's European partners needed to act quickly...

What teachers really want to tell parents

What teachers really want to tell parents

As southern hemisphere schools start up a new academic year, and teachers and pupils head back to school, the single biggest complaint I hear repeatedly when speaking to teachers has to do with parents. Over the past decade or so, Generation Xers (born in the 1970s...

Idealising the past: Being unsocial

Idealising the past: Being unsocial

A few weeks ago the following picture was doing the rounds on Twitter and Facebook, under the heading: "modern technology makes us more unsocial": There's an excellent point to be made in this photo, and in the similar I found below. Older generations often idealise...

A new skyline for Johannesburg

A new skyline for Johannesburg

Late last year, a Chinese property company spent a significant amount of money to buy the remaining AECI property in Modderfontein, a massive industrial area east of Sandton and Johannesburg. It's in the area between Marlboro (a Gautrain station) and the airport....