The first text message may have been sent in 1992, but my friends and I were texting each other way back in 1984. We were not genius child prodigies who invented some futuristic texting device, on the...
Let me start off by clarifying a huge misconception: a blockchain is not the same thing as Bitcoin. They are two very different technologies, even if they are somewhat connected. Saying that a blockch...
Electric vehicles could potentially transform society. Rising petrol prices are making life difficult for many South Africans, with the poor suffering the most, as always. When petrol goes up, so does...
There are about 1 billion devices connected to the internet, and this will increase to 50 billion by 2020. That’s a massive jump in just two years. Where are those extra connections going to come from...
You’ve heard of outsourcing, but have you heard of “outsourcing 2.0”? According to some sources, this is the next stage in India’s outsourcing evolution, and is making waves in the global digital econ...
Not many people associate a glass of milk with advanced technology, but in reality there is an extraordinary amount of cutting-edge technology at play to get that glass from the farm to our tables. Fo...
In Star Trek, doctors diagnosed their patients by scanning them with a non-intrusive medical scanner called a “Medical Tricorder”. These amazing devices could diagnose any illness within seconds, and ...
The Amazon Go concept store in Seattle is one of its kind in the world. The store has no cashiers or cash registers. Customers simply walk in, pick their items and walk out. How exactly does a busines...
“Since the discovery of fire and the wheel man’s brain has not stopped coming up with innovations aimed at easing life” Your smartphone is about to get smarter than you’ve ev...
“Unlike other technologies, there is something very specific about smartphones. It represents a life connected to entertainment, social media, gaming, and incessant texting” – Dr. Richard Freed...