“The Kids Hate It, but We Love It!”: Parents’ Reviews of Circle

The converged appliance: "I love it... but I hate it"

The last decade has seen convergence marketed as one response to the challenge of users having to juggle an increasingly wide array of digital services, technologies and media. Key to this view is the assumption that by converging computer devices, and digital media, the value of technology for end users can be maximised whilst the overheads involved in purchasing, maintaining and orchestrating...

PFS: the endpoint we love and love to hate.

Why do we love to hate ourselves?

Dhaliwal’s comment on Zwaan et al nicely refutes what has been called ‘the hypothesis of special cause’—the notion that when things turn out wrong, the cognitive processes leading to that outcome must have been fundamentally different (ie, error-prone) from when they turn out right. Dhaliwal’s argument recapitulates thinking that is over 100 years old; one of the early contributors to psycholog...

We Want Security but We Hate It - The Foundations of security technoeconomics in the social worldfrom Control to Surveillance

The social aspects of security are becoming increasingly important, now that security is at the foundation of the upcoming Internet Operating System. We will not be able to investigate the human side of security issues without considering the other side of the coin: surveillance. Some ‘Controlled Computing’ proposals are emerging, which at times recall Orwellian scenarios; on the other hand the...

Editorial: IT & Kids