Food for thought: Recipes for the first-year student
We’ve all been there. Come home after a long day, feel too exhausted to cook an extravagant meal so we settle for take-out. As...
New technologies cause the death of old favourites
With DVDs being replaced by Blu-Rays and video files, and CDs slowly being replaced by MP3s, we are heading full steam ahead into the...
Back to the Future? A comparison between prospective technologies and reality
The 1989 film Back to the Future II provided a highly ambitious prediction of what technology would look like in 2015.
In the second part...
How the Internet killed cable TV
Cable television seemed to have no competition for many years, until instant-viewing Internet television was developed. Today, Internet television providers may very well take...
The slow decline of the landline
The home phone, now known as a ‘landline,’ used to be indispensable to almost any household.
Gone are the days of memorizing countless phone numbers—now...
