What Would We Do Without The Internet?

It’s been a worrisome week for the Internet. Last Sunday, Google went down for five minutes and 40% of internet traffic upped and disappeared. A day later, the same thing happened to Amazon. In the forty minutes it took their tech staff to get the website up and running again, the company had lost $40 million dollars. It seems that the future of technology isn't as rosy as we're led to believe.

Al Gore warned us against relying on machines in America's foremost educational cartoon: Futurama. He said that we could only stretch the goodwill of the Internet so far before it turned on us. Instead of listening to him, we torrented David Hasselhoff's entire discography and frivolously bought a Starship Enterprise pizza cutter. When the robots decide they've had enough and pull the plug we'll regret all the data we've wasted.

The Terrifying World Of Drones

Drones – they’re terrifying, aren’t they? Little remote-controlled aircraft flying about the place, blowing stuff up, watching things… There could be a drone watching you right now!

Drones strike terror into the hearts of people but they couldn’t have had more whimsical beginnings. The first drone creators were dreamers, the sort of men who looked at air balloons and thought: “Hey, you know what’d be better than flying in this thing? Strapping bombs to it and sending it at people!” Which is exactly what they did. Of course, the problem with that was that it was an air balloon. A gust of wind or a man with a particularly long prodding stick sent it hurtling back to base, right on the heads of its unfortunate creators.