Technology

• 16th April 2018 Harry Hamburg

  ATMs have spit out over $1.25bn of free cash since 2013

  Go to an ATM at the right place, at the right time, and you could be collecting a whole lot of free money. Over $1.25 billion has been spewed out by cash machines, in over 40 countries, since 2013. Of…

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• 11th April 2018 Harry Hamburg

  Could smoking be the answer to some of medicine’s biggest challenges?

  Yep, I know that’s weird. But something’s about to happen that could change popular opinion of Big Tobacco in a major way. Yes, most people detest them right now. But in a few years’ time it could be a very…

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• 9th April 2018 Harry Hamburg

  Hate-likes and the failure of “truth”

  Have you ever heard of Vero? I’m guessing probably not. And there’s every chance you never will. But the story of Vero is a good one. It follows that most classic of plotlines. The one of a brilliant creator who…

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• 6th April 2018 Harry Hamburg

  Deepfakes will create a world your brain isn’t ready for

  When Orson Welles adapted The War of the Worlds for a CBS radio drama in 1938, it caused widespread panic. There were reports of suicides, car crashes, mass hysteria and stampedes. Police rushed to the radio station and demanded the…

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• 4th April 2018 Harry Hamburg

  The devil in your dreams

  Have you ever had a dream that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream… how would you know the difference between the dream, and the real world? This is what Morpheus…

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• 3rd April 2018 Harry Hamburg

  Your letters

  Have you ever noticed that I often ask your opinion on the things I write about, but I never seem to do anything with them? Well, thank you if you’ve ever written in. I do read your emails, every single…

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• 2nd April 2018 Harry Hamburg

  My must-read articles from the last three months

  It’s Easter Monday. Which means it’s a bank holiday. Which means I’m not in the office today. So instead of the usual essay, I’ve collected a sort of “best of” of my essays from the last three months. Have a…

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• 30th March 2018 Harry Hamburg

  The greatest invention of all time

  What’s the greatest invention of all time? I’ll give you a clue, the answer is contained in the question. That’s right. The greatest invention of all time… is time itself. I’m not talking about the idea of time. That’s innate….

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• 28th March 2018 Harry Hamburg

  The 2054 bible

  Before he started filming Minority Report, Steven Spielberg invited 15 experts to a three-day think tank on the future of technology. What they came up with was nicknamed the “2054 bible”. Almost 20 years later it is still influencing design…

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• 26th March 2018 Harry Hamburg

  Drugs are bad mkay?

  You don’t put out a fire by pouring more fire on top of it. Firstly, that would never work. And secondly, you can’t “pour” fire anyway. Just like you don’t solve a societal drug problem by prescribing even more drugs….

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