Category Archives: internet Revolution

The Internet Revolution for Numpties

Posted on 4 November 2016 by Scottish-Sceptic

Back in the days when books had to be written, they were very precious objects, because a book like the bible would takes months, even years, to produce. In today’s money that’s of the order of £10,000 for a book. … Continue reading →

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Trump sentences Media to Death

Posted on 3 November 2016 by Scottish-Sceptic

For a long time I’ve been highlighting the loss of power and influence of the once “mainstream” media as the internet & social media takes over as the channel of choice for most people for news. But I thought their … Continue reading →

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Mirror Mirror on the wall who's the most electable politician of them all?

Posted on 11 July 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

The press, hammered by lost advertising revenue, are now little more than copy and paste merchants. The result is the “reality” politicians see is increasingly an uncritical mirror of themselves. We’ve all seen the graph below. This shows that the … Continue reading →

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UKIP: The revolution is upon us.

Posted on 22 May 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

Back in January I began realising that society was going through a massive social change as a result of social media. It started with the realisation that the mainstream on climate was no longer the “mainstream” media, but in reality … Continue reading →

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The end of the UK university? – II

Posted on 19 February 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

Stewgreen dropped me a link to an ABC chat on almost the same subject as my previous article on the end of the UK university. ABC The Science Show: Will online learning replace the university campus? Here is the transcript:-

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The end of the UK university?

Posted on 13 February 2014 by Scottish-Sceptic

With the rise of the internet, I’ve been wondering why it is that universities each present basically the same lectures to the same course all over the world, when the whole system could be so dramatically simplified. But then again, … Continue reading →

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