Models used so far to explain viral events lack explanatory or predictive value. It is time to turn to Catastrophe Theory.
Category Archive: Life
It’s as primitive as a dominant stag roaring and grunting from the top of the tump during the rut, and all too often as drunk with testosterone.
How many of this summer’s new graduates will find that their workplace expects silent submission, and stifles the real benefits of lifelong learning?
I still think of those who died in the Falklands War, and of Tony Tyler, one of the wittiest and most perceptive of the contributors to MacUser. We miss them.
Let us hope that this apparent forgetfulness is not a sign of things to come.
Not content with changing the publishing business, Amazon seems determined to change literature as a whole.
Any school or other organisation that refuses to use wireless networking on grounds of health risk or safety is making a public declaration that their understanding of science is medieval at best.
It is time for those who publish offensive content, albeit written by others, to shoulder their responsibilities and protect the rights of those who may be damaged by such content.
All too commonly those who should square up to bullies fail to do so.
There seems no doubt that intensely viral events occur. Characterising their early stages remains very difficult, requiring sensitive analysis on a huge data stream.
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