14 posts tagged with "Digital Technologies"

Utah is first US state to limit teen social media access

March 23, 2023

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Utah has become the first US state to require social media firms get parental consent for children to use their apps and verify users are at least 18. The move comes amidst heightened concern over the impact of social media on children's mental health. Ari Z Cohn, a free speech lawyer for TechFreedom, said the bill posed "significant free speech problems". "There are so many children who might be in abusive households," he told the BBC, "who might be LGBT, who could be cut-off from social media entirely."

Design3 — the future of Design

June 9, 2022

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These days when we think about the latest evolution of Design we might think; Human-centred Design, Product Design, Service Design or Strategic Design… perhaps even Systems, Organisational or Business Design. Where Design goes next, and in fact, what design is or will become is a topic that I’ve always been interested in (and written several Medium articles on along with an MBA thesis). Now I have a more specific, possible idea — Design3.

The Digital in Architecture - Then, Now and in the Future (Report)

July 1, 2021

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Inside David Bowie’s insane, disturbing virtual world from 1998 that some fans never left

May 27, 2021

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The year was 1998, and AOL trial CDs were filling mailboxes from coast to coast. Connecting to the Internet meant sitting through a chorus of dial-up tones and disabling one of your phone lines in the process. Between Yahoo chat rooms, the early rumbles of Y2K, and Will Smith’s “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It,” a pop star wanting to run his own ISP didn’t seem all that strange.