Category: Technology
-
50 Years of Commercial Radio
October 2023 marks 50 years since ‘commercial’ radio was launched. Capital, LBC, and others… https://www.boomradiouk.com/fifty-years-of-commercial-radio/
-
Contactless!
It seems ages ago, and it was (2009), since the memorable Barclays’ “waterchute” ad of the man jumping onto the slide and eventually passing through the supermarket where he grabs a bunch of bananas and at the same time waves his debit card at the reader to make the payment, while still in motion on…
-
Big Data
‘Big Data’ and algorithms is where it’s at. If you ( a corporate entity) collect a big enough sample (e.g. from Facebook) you can fairly accurately predict people’s likes and dislikes and possibly understand them, better than they consciously know themselves. Patterns can be seen in very large samples, which is how systems can have…