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RTÃâs new Listen app tells us some things about its future direction but keeps others hidden (opens the original)
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I canât quite remember when I stopped listening to broadcast radio. First the little transistor I used to carry gave way to the smartphone. Then the tuner in the hi-fi was swapped for a streaming box. Before long every device in the house was connected to every other and capable of playing everything, everywhere (though preferably not all at once). Live radio was still in the mix, but now jostled for attention with podcasts and music services tailored far more closely to individual taste. Trad
Hugh Linehan: Is Ireland still a place âopen to everything except for Godâ? (opens the original)
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A couple of years ago, I went to a community meeting called to discuss how the suburb where I live might mark its centenary. A number of themes were suggested for exploration and debate. Among them were family stories, the role of sport, the changing environment and the place of religion. There seemed to be little or no appetite for discussing religion among those present, who ranged in age from their 20s to their 70s. This was despite the fact that, to judge by the photographic record, public d
Who should we believe on the AI apocalypse? (opens the original)
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Anyone distressed by the proliferation of âWill AI kill us all?â headlines over the past two weeks would do well to remember the principle articulated by technology journalist Ian Betteridge in 2009. Betteridgeâs Law asserts that when a headline takes the form of a question, the answer is invariably no. The law codifies a time-honoured understanding in media that the headline-question format signals a startling assertion unsupported by sufficient evidence. So how do you approach a story ab
The age of the exciting smartphone launch is over, but is a new sort of device on its way? (opens the original)
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In four monthsâ time we will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the day Steve Jobs walked on to a San Francisco stage and unveiled the first iPhone. Though âcelebrateâ may not be quite the word these days. The device Jobs presented to the world that January morning in 2007 is now widely reviled as the source of many modern discontents, from a teenage mental-health crisis to the shredding of collective attention spans. Be that as it may, that presentation â in which Jobs held up a single s
Social mediaâs age of the follower is replaced by tyranny of the recommender machine (opens the original)
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There has always been something a little creepy about the follower. From the earliest days of the social media era the word carried a faint whiff of the compound and the commune, of Charles Manson or Jim Jones. To follow, in ordinary English, is to trail behind someone, to defer, to obey. But an entire communications economy got built on the cheerful assumption that amassing followers was a wholesome ambition, a sign that you had something worth saying. As the platforms grew in reach and scale,
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