Posts tagged magic

As the recent Private Eye cartoon said: “Ali Baba. You really should not use Open Sesame as your password for ALL your caves!” … Dave is a clairvoyant who finds out specific financial information. This video shows the magic behind the magic, making people aware of the fact that their entire life can be found online. AMAZING!

For Wanton Innovation and Crimes Against the Way We Were …

We all know what killed the radio star[*] but ageing rocker Bon Jovi now thinks that Apple’s Steve Jobs is the one “killing the magic” of the entire music business. He says the experience of listening to music has been downgraded by iTunes downloads and iPods. The accusations of wanton innovation got spicier still yesterday, when author Bob Woodward took on the emperors of search for their lethal impact on the newspaper. Search engines, he said, “are not going to have meaning if we have a screwed up information system”.