The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.” ...
Computer Weekly

Building the next generation of digital public services

Despite decades of digitisation of public services, governments have not been sharing the benefits of digitisation with the public. In 2020, the NHS ran a bus-stop poster campaign in England warning ...
Computer Weekly

Can 'god-like technologies' be prevented from harming a generation of children?

As the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) continues to make its way through the implementation process - with a deadline of 24 July for affected companies to complete their child safety assessments - I’ve ...
Forbes

Quantum Is More Than Just Computing

Quantum computing is getting a lot of attention lately — deservedly so. It’s hard not to get excited about the new capabilities that quantum computing could bring. This new generation of computers ...