People with too much wisdom and experience could find themselves redundant in Digital Britain’s new knowledge economy. ‘In the Internet age, when wisdom is just a mouse click away, there’s little demand for people who had to spend their whole lives learning by experience,’ said Gino Spencer, chief evangelist of Zeitgeist Social Media.
Posted: Aug 19th, 2011
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Apple is preparing to enter the UK sofa market with an ambitious bid to acquire DFS.
‘It makes complete sense,’ says market analyst Rodney Wiles. ‘Steve Jobs has long been an admirer of DFS cool and he likes to relax with Jonathan Ive on a DFS 3 seater double manual recliner in brown leather.’
Posted: Jun 17th, 2011
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The mother of a Chinese man has spoken of her horror after finding out that her son, identified only as ‘Big Zheng’, had arranged the sale of one of his iPads to fund the purchase of a kidney in a shady internet transaction.
Posted: Jun 4th, 2011
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Following the launch of The Daily, a new subscription newspaper app for the iPad, News Corporation has unveiled its first foray into the human subconscious with a pay-per-view dream service called The Nightly.
Posted: Feb 6th, 2011
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Academics are worried that the surge in popularity of ebook readers could lead to a catastrophic loss of children’s basic Google search skills.
Posted: Dec 12th, 2010
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