Are we ready to say bye to books was the provocative title of a BBC article last Friday on Kindle DX, an e-reading device nearly as big as an A4 sheet of paper. After spending some time discussing how it will work and how much it will cost, the article never really gets round to [...]
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Goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg developed the first printing press in Western Europe (circa 1440). The technology was based on screw-presses that were already being used to press cloth and grapes. The genius of the Far East had already beaten him to it though, inventing woodblock printing and moveable type (after which a modern weblog management tool [...]
Filed under: learning, technology, writing | Tagged: book, Kindle DX, magazines, newspapers, printing, technology, text reader | 3 Comments »
A recent survey conducted by the The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education has found that the proportion of adult learners in the UK is at its lowest level since 1997. What happened in 1997? The Labour party came into power, that’s what. All this is the more embarrassing since Labour’s much vaunted push for [...]
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An article this week caugh my eye ire. Internet bamboozles people in Belfast. Can I beg to differ? Only this week, I was listening to some internation bod, who was investing in NI, as it has the highest qualified IT people this side of thon Danube. But, perhaps he didn’t read this article. He’d be [...]
Filed under: education, learning, technology | Tagged: Belfast, internet, internet bamboozles people in belfast, Northern Ireland, research, thick paddy, web | 6 Comments »
