Tammy_Technology_Ranting

All the 1900’s kids would have either watched or heard of ‘Back to the Future.’ A classical science fiction movie that follows a kid and a crazy scientist on epic adventures taking them to both the past and future. Yet for me, (and I’m sure most of you will agree) I was always fascinated by the hoverboard that ‘Marty’ used to elude his enemies and even save the day with. That flying contraption which was seen to be an advanced version of a skateboard was always one of the highlights in my opinion to represent the movie itself. The hoverboard is one of those objects that remind us of the past and future. Since this object is so generic it has been used in many classical movies but can also depict the future if we use the term ‘turning dreams into reality.’ Of course, the blockbusters such as Spiderman, where the Green Goblin was shown to be flying around on a ‘glider’ – similar to the hoverboard, Treasure Planet and even Static Shock. All these shows have all used some form of the ho...

Time is a concept that seemed a distant philosophy until the inventions of the earlier time contraptions such as the sundial and hourglass. Yet, these inventions were open to the public. So, time wasn’t hidden only for the rich, for once! However, the grandfather clock – a piece of fine machinery that acts as decoration for the rich that individuals were on a pursuit to attain in order to keep up appearances back in the middle ages, was in contrast a privilege for only those that could afford it. The grandfather clock was most unique in its design through the use of the pendulum swinging back and forth as its time keeping element, whilst being coated in the finest (at the time) wood. In fact, the design was specifically created as a large piece of furniture, with oak that could keep the entity of the house itself. Yet, the main attribute about the grandfather clock is the essence of family and the past it carries, automatically bestowing a sense of mystery confined within the oak pi...

Have you ever had one of those dreams where you feel so powerful, happy and hopeful, that when you wake up you either try and force yourself to go back to sleep so you can experience more of it or you get up feeling over the moon. Those dreams where you’re given powerful abilities (my favourite), where you are an important figure that everyone looks to, a celebrity or whatever you want! Honestly speaking, I tend to live in my imagination. A place I feel safe to explore, powerful enough to fight in and open to creating more. ‘My own world.’ An escape. A rope that allows me to climb out of reality, even if it is for a few seconds so I can experience happiness on my own terms. It’s hard enough to describe our dreams to people or even paint a picture of what we see when we enter the vast dimension of our imagination. The most expansive and technical source that science has come to know. Yet, now we have stepped further in to actually manipulating technology into creating our own virtual r...

Television . Let’s be honest. Can we really remember a time without the moving pictures to waste countless hours in front of? The millions of pixels have been around for god knows how long, starting from the black and white moving images to the 4 dimensional state that consume us till this day. The brilliant invention thought of by none other than John Logie Biard, created the very first televisions in the early 1960’s. FINALLY venturing out from the plain black and white to the colourful reality. Thank god!!! I mean can you imagine friends in black and white -.- Although there are many famous inventors that take credit for the invention of the television, adding colour just allowed television to venture towards a more realistic experience for its viewers. To further indulge ourselves in our cinematic lives, television went from odd films to daily television programmes to further take over our lives and distract us from our boring reality. Then in August 1928, shit got real! 3-D...