https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/ en-us Copyright 2007 Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:40:34 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The 2006 Free Thinking bloggers have all posted their last weblog. Thank you to everyone who contributed to these blogs and made them a place of lively debate. If you'd like to continue to explore ideas important to how humanity... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2007/01/thanks_and_invitation.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2007/01/thanks_and_invitation.shtml Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:40:34 +0000 On Sunday November 12th I sat enthralled as I watched the ceremony of the laying of the poppy wreaths at the Cenotaph in London on TV. Remembrance Day, three hours of watching the great and the good paying their respects... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/11/the_best_and_worst_of_tv.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/11/the_best_and_worst_of_tv.shtml Technology Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:28:40 +0000 Next year sees the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the notorious slave trade. A lot has been written about Liverpool’s involvement in this vile trade. Slavery goes right back to the days of the pyramids and the Egyptians. However... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/11/liverpool_and_the_slave_trade.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/11/liverpool_and_the_slave_trade.shtml Society Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:29:58 +0000 A survey among the younger generation of women taken just recently revealed that 32% reckoned that marriage was an outmoded institution and unnecessary. In other words who need a piece of paper to consolidate a partnership? The state of living... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/11/to_wed_or_not_to_wed.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/11/to_wed_or_not_to_wed.shtml Society Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:04:54 +0000 Two items in the press in the last week raise an interesting question mark against big business in this country. The big Banks (who else) have been taken to task by the Office of Fair Trading on the issue of... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/10/integrity_in_business.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/10/integrity_in_business.shtml Society Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:21:10 +0000 I have been told hundreds, maybe thousands of times, that nobody is indispensable. Is this how it will always be? Will computers and robots become the rulers of the universe? https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/10/can_technology_replace_the_hum.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/10/can_technology_replace_the_hum.shtml Technology Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:05:57 +0000 Through my association with the Tenantspin community group and being based in the FACT centre in Liverpool I come into contact and work with people from all ethnic groups. They have become some of my closest friends and I enjoy... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/10/live_and_let_live.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/10/live_and_let_live.shtml Society Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:26:48 +0000 That’s exactly how I felt last week, when for four days I could not use my Internet Browser. Although I could continue typing documents and so forth, any research I needed had to be put on the back burner. I... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/10/locked_out_with_nowhere_to_go.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/10/locked_out_with_nowhere_to_go.shtml Technology Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:45:10 +0000 The day North Korea detonated a nuclear device I and some compatriots attended a film show in the FACT Centre Liverpool, a showing of An Inconvenient Truth. The show was put together by the former American Presidential candidate Al Gore... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/10/the_disappearing_earth.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/10/the_disappearing_earth.shtml Society Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:37:52 +0000 What I like doing when I’m relaxing is to listen to music of all kinds. Sad or happy, it doesn’t matter. The live sound of musical instruments being played by talented people who have studied for years is to me,... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/10/music_and_technology.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/10/music_and_technology.shtml Technology Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:35:08 +0000 On 27th September a High Court judge in London made a ruling that a very determined lady, Elizabeth Pascoe aged 60 living in the Edge Hill area of Liverpool was having her human rights breached by attempts to demolish her... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/10/democracy_benefit_or_hindrance.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/10/democracy_benefit_or_hindrance.shtml Society Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:43:26 +0000 What a sight. The young and the old, the fit and wheelchair-users The famous and the ordinary, the talented and the run of the mill. Gorillas, chickens and not a scowl in sight. Even a cyber man, Dr Who style... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/10/the_impossible_dream.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/10/the_impossible_dream.shtml Society Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:30:41 +0000 The world must know of the tragic accident which almost cost Richard Hammond his life. I can’t imagine what his wife and children must have felt, knowing that he was performing a feat which could have destroyed him and them.... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/10/did_technology_almost_kill_him.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/10/did_technology_almost_kill_him.shtml Technology Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:47:33 +0000 “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks” and “It’s never too late to learn.” Two old adages in strict contradiction to each other, but which is the truer. When it comes to today’s technology, are older people holding back? https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/09/too_old_to_learn.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/09/too_old_to_learn.shtml Age Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:31:56 +0000 Computer generated words and actions Controlled by said computers I hope will be a servant of the future. I am Visually Impaired, and would love to simply switch on my machine one day, and command Metal Mickey, or whoever is... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/09/robotics.shtml https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/freethinkingtenantspin/2006/09/robotics.shtml Technology Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:17:07 +0000