Technology is not the Problem
@TechintProblem
New book by @timandraharknes - paperback out July 3rd 2025
paperback publication July 3rd! "principled, courageous, and original" "a balanced and insightful view of how technology is changing our world" "eloquent and invigorating" “Interesting and informative but also enticing and highly addictive. ... not the internet... this book."
Adapted from @TechintProblem for @signmagazine, some of data's darkest and most heroic tales:
The powerful true story of how an early computer expert thwarted Nazi efforts to pinpoint Jews. As told by @TimandraHarknes, and free to read on the website now: ow.ly/ojLk50WkXFV
Technology is STILL not the problem. Or - why I didn't need to update the book for the paperback edition: technologyisnottheproblem.substack.com/p/technology-s…
Paperback out July 3rd - pre-order now!
fascinating:
🚨 Now out in NHB 🚨 We show that following the news on WhatsApp or Instagram (N = 3,395 🇫🇷🇩🇪) increases current affairs knowledge, participants’ ability to discern true from false news stories, awareness of true news stories, as well as trust in the news.
Graham knows what's talking about...
Sometime in the next 10 days or so Ofcom are due to issue a new #OnlineSafetyAct consultation. It is likely to be the most controversial yet, wading further into the perilous waters of mandatory automated content moderation and proactive content filtering. Keep your eyes peeled.
Excited to find paperbacks of @TechintProblem at Charleston Festival - officially out July 3rd.
“...feeling special is as important as outward signals. Nobody else will know this car matches your dog’s fur, but you will, and that will remind you every time you see it that nothing is too good for you, or your dog.”
I'm quoted in @Design_Week on the appeal of personalisation - as explained at greater length in @TechintProblem of course! designweek.co.uk/the-perfect-wi…
designweek.co.uk
“The perfect wish” – why Rolls-Royce is doubling down on personalised design
At Rolls-Royce’s site in West Sussex, visitors are asked to put on a purple overall-style jacket. Nothing unusual there, it’s routine at manufacturing facilities to be handed a coat.
1950s data viz, golf, Monty Hall, extreme weather, prediction tournaments, the Titanic and the weird rise of RNCTs - all in the new, May issue. ow.ly/3JB450VCrYR #statistics #data @OxfordJournals
Very good to see John Graunt mentioned in the Diary. This is a interesting paper celebrating 400 years of his birth, by @TimandraHarknes published in @signmagazine rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
26th April 1668 - John Graunt (aka Grant) gets a mention in Pepys' diary. See @TechintProblem for more about his life and his pioneering work as the "Columbus of numbers."
Sunday 26 April 1668 Lay long, and then up and to Church, and so home, where there come and dined with me Harris, Rolt, and Bannister, and one Bland, that sings well also, and very merry at dinner, and, after dinner, to sing all the afternoon. … I and Balty walked as far as…
Buy @TechintProblem from uk.bookshop.org today and you might win a £250 gift card! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/techno…
Happy World Book Day!
As a young writer Ray Bradbury was acutely aware of the vulnerability of books to censure and destruction: Nazi book-burnings, Stalin's purge of writers and the McCarthy-era blacklisting of Hollywood writers formed the background to his novel Fahrenheit 451.
It’s @TechintProblem giving side eye to the other books as usual!
Everything except the church, strictly speaking
Doesn’t this include… everything?
Two lesser known books today, both illustrated by Ronald Lampitt (1972)
Since this year’s #worldbookday2025 tells you to “read your way!” why not read about why EVERYTHING has to be personalised these days? @TechintProblem
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