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ISociety project to debunk technology myths
News A major investigation into the way information technology affects our lives was launched by the Industrial Society on Thursday. An Industrial Society survey commissioned for the launch has found that 78 percent of people believe technology has...
[March 16, 2001, 11:35]
Jane Wakefield: In search of Internet truth
News The initial survey for the Industrial Society's iSociety project suggests we have a love/hate relationship with the technology that surrounds us. A Microsoft-sponsored three year enquiry into the effects of technology on society was launched by the...
[March 20, 2001, 7:36]
SimCity Societies
Downloads homes, leisure spots, workplaces and industrial sites. Determine the look and feel of your society, from police state to liberal utopia. Unlock new buildings to advance and help your society evolve. Societies gives you the power to shape society!
[July 19, 2008, 8:00]
SimCity Societies
Downloads Choose a range of building types-homes, leisure spots, workplaces and industrial sites. Determine the look and feel of your society, from police state to liberal utopia. Unlock new buildings to advance and help your society evolve.
[November 3, 2008, 7:00]
SimCity Societies
Downloads Choose a range of building types - homes, leisure spots, workplaces and industrial sites. Determine the look and feel of your society, from police state to liberal utopia. Unlock new buildings to advance and help your society evolve.
[July 19, 2008, 8:00]
SimCity Societies
Downloads Choose a range of building types - homes, leisure spots, workplaces and industrial sites. Determine the look and feel of your society, from police state to liberal utopia. Unlock new buildings to advance and help your society evolve.
[March 12, 2009, 7:00]
IT @ Heart Of Next Industrial Revolution
Blog IT in the future, with its effect on our infrastructure, food, climate and personal lives will have as great an impact on the way we live as the Industrial Revolution did towards the end of the nineteenth century.
[March 13, 2009, 8:32]
US warns of electronic-attack danger
News Some have argued that an EMP event could be like putting the United States in a giant time machine and, in the blink of an eye, transforming our high-tech society into a primitive, pre-industrial one.
[October 11, 1999, 16:48]
A Year Ago: US warns of electronic attack danger
News Some have argued that an EMP event could be like putting the United States in a giant time machine and, in the blink of an eye, transforming our high-tech society into a primitive, pre-industrial one.
[October 11, 2000, 7:02]
Xansa founder honoured with BCS award
News Commercial & Industrial The British Computer Society (BCS) IT Professional Awards ceremony took place on Tuesday night in London. Winner: Britannia Building Society ("Really Big Programme") Winner: Britannia Building Society ("Really Big Programme")
[October 20, 2004, 18:05]
EC doubles robotics R&D investment
News Research areas to be granted funding will primarily be industrial robotics, which the Commission hopes will enable manufacturing to continue in higher wage countries, and be able to compete with Asia.
[June 12, 2008, 13:09]
Government body says developing countries need open source
News Other members include Daniel Alexander, a barrister specialising in intellectual property law, Professor Carlos Correa of the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, and Dr Ramesh Mashelkar, director general of the Indian Council of Scientific...
[September 13, 2002, 10:19]
Toddler-sized robot dances at debut
News Some of its industrial giants, including Nissan, are reporting larger profits. Nobuyuki Idei, chief executive of Sony, gave the first North American demonstration of Qrio on Saturday as part of a speech he delivered to the Japan Society of Northern...
[October 14, 2003, 15:00]
Lighting a fire in IT teaching
Leader In the 19th century, the British industrial revolution created a parallel revolution in the schools: an illiterate working class is fine when muscle power drives the economy, but hopeless in a world of steam and electricity.
[November 20, 2006, 14:12]
Apple designer honoured by the Queen
Blog Jonathan Ive, who was born in the UK in February 1967 and studied industrial design at Newcastle Polytechnic, became a Commander of the British Empire in the Queen's New Year Honours. Just last month he was named as the senior vice president of...
[November 17, 2006, 11:53]
Gates 'driven by vision'
Talkback Here's a man that has had a major part in making computing accessible to the masses and having the biggest effect on our lifestyles since the industrial revolution, powering a massive majority of all businesses around the world (I had to laugh at...
[October 28, 2005, 12:34]
Gates 'driven by vision'
Talkback Here's a man that has had a major part in making computing accessible to the masses and having the biggest effect on our lifestyles since the industrial revolution, powering a massive majority of all businesses around the world (I had to laugh at...
[October 28, 2005, 12:29]
Dictatorial, disastrous, dire: Mandelson must not pass
Blog Without debate, without public consulation, without any form of mandate, Lord Mandelson - an unelected politician - is preparing to place the rights of powerful industrial concerns above those of Parliament and above ours.
[November 19, 2009, 17:09]
SimCity Societies
Downloads Choose a range of building types - homes, leisure spots, workplaces and industrial sites. Determine the look and feel of your society, from police state to liberal utopia. Unlock new buildings to advance and help your society evolve.
[July 19, 2008, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I'm loath to mention this to some Netheads of my acquaintance, who seem to feel that it is their inalienable right to resist this sort of mechanisation of a skilled trade, but hey -- this is the post-industrial society.
[August 31, 2001, 18:54]
