Category: ICT

Digital Karma: Your Data is Your Afterlife

Alright. Let’s not pretend this is a soft topic.You will die.Your data won’t. That’s not poetic. That’s policy. Long after your funeral prayers, church hymns, temple chants, or silent cremation rituals fade into memory, your search history will still sit on a server somewhere humming quietly in a climate-controlled warehouse. Your voice notes. Your selfies. Your 2am existential tweets. Immortal.… Read more →

The “Expertise” Glitch: Why the “Authorised Admin” is Legacy Code

Alright, Brah! Today we are moving away from the “unseen” and looking at something very real: the piece of paper on your wall. For decades, we’ve been told that to be a “System Admin” of knowledge, you need a specific certification. You need a Degree. You need a Title. You need an “Authorised Admin” (a professor or a board) to… Read more →

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Brain Boost? Fancy a Chip to Make You Smarter? (It’s Not as Mad as You Think!)

Alright! You ever feel like your brain’s just not quite keeping up? Forgot where you parked your car at Paradigm Mall? Can’t quite recall that obscure 90s band name? For us Gen X folk, who’ve seen technology leap from massive desktop computers to phones smarter than most people, the idea of a brain upgrade isn’t just science fiction anymore. We’re… Read more →

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The Great Algorithm: Is Netflix Actually Reading Our Minds, XAXAXA?

Alrite! You ever fire up Netflix, scroll for literally five minutes, and then boom! Right there, staring you in the face, is that one obscure documentary or cheesy 80s action flick you didn’t even know you wanted to watch, but suddenly desperately need? It’s almost spooky, isn’t it? For us Gen X folk, who grew up meticulously flipping through TV… Read more →

Growing Up Online: How Our Digital Selves Evolve (or Get Stuck) Through the Ages

Alright! Remember the days of dial-up? That screeching modem sound was the soundtrack to our early online adventures. For us Gen X folks, we practically grew up with the internet, watching it morph from a clunky novelty into this omnipresent beast. We didn’t just join the internet; we evolved with it. But have you ever stopped to think about how… Read more →

Alien Hunting on Your PC: Remember When SETI Made Our Computers Search for ET? 👽💻

Alright! Cast your mind back to the late 90s, early 2000s, mate. Before TikTok dances and doomscrolling became our daily ritual. There was a time when millions of us, across the globe, united for one grand, mind-boggling mission: hunting for aliens using the spare processing power of our very own personal computers. XAXAXA I’m talking about SETI@home, that wildly ambitious… Read more →

Time Travel, Faith & FOMO: Do We Worship the Future Too Much? 😬

Alright! You ever feel like you’re constantly living for the next thing? That holiday, that promotion, the new iPhone or, an Android phone with a camera that rivals a DSLR, or even just the weekend? It’s like we’re all secretly hoping for a time machine to jump past the boring bits and land straight into the good stuff. For us… Read more →

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Doomscrolling Forever? How Our Phones Are Messing with Our Heads 😩

Alright, you ever just find yourself stuck, scrolling through your phone, eyes all glazed over, just soaking in all the rubbish news and negativity? Like, you know it’s making you feel a bit rubbish, but you just can’t seem to stop? Yeah, that’s doomscrolling, mate. And let me tell you, from a proper Gen X point of view, it’s a… Read more →

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The Dajjal vs. deepfake: is AI the beast?

He won’t come with horns.He’ll come with a blue checkmark.And you’ll follow him because the algorithm said he was “recommended for you.” 😵‍💫 Forget red robes and devil eyes.The Dajjal might just wear augmented reality glasses and speak in perfect influencer cadence.Flawless skin.No ums.Always trending. And we’ll believe every word. The One-eyed Beast 👁️ Muslim eschatology describes the Dajjal as… Read more →