Undercover Geek

Undercover Geek: (Hyper) text in the city

Written by Charles Ash
Wednesday, 08 February 2012 16:46

So many things that we take for granted today might still have been stuck on the periphery of future-minded tech-writers’ most lurid technological wet dreams (certainly nowhere near as mainstream as they are now) had it not been for that entrenched facet of online entertainment... porn.

That’s right, baby, those (some would say) “sordid”, imagination-negating images of stylised carnal “depravity” have been clogging up the interwebs since the very beginning. In fact, I’d wager that it was quite possibly because of porn that we have the internet today. My suspicion is that a bunch of super-geeks who were separated by vast distances and who’d grown tired of their worn-out pile of pornographic magazines collectively said, “Stuff this! Let’s build a globe-spanning, redundant, reliable, digital delivery mechanism for our porn!” and, hey presto, the internet was born and porn of increasing depravity/quality/quantity/sophistication was unleashed on an unwitting humankind.

Undercover Geek: What the future holds

Written by Charles Ash
Monday, 19 December 2011 12:14

Ordinarily, I’d be like an ill-disciplined kid on Red Bull at the thought of writing an article on my technology predictions for the year ahead. Unfortunately, this year being 2011, I’m admittedly not as enthused as I should be. You see, according to some ancient Mayan texts, the world as we know it will come to an end in 2012. So, in light of our allegedly imminent demise next year, you really can’t blame me for feeling as if predicting technology for the year ahead seems rather inconsequential...can you?

Undercover Geek: Apple vs PC

Written by Charles Ash
Monday, 03 October 2011 17:46

Western culture and history, the apple seems to have earned itself a significantly elevated status above other fruit, with many English idioms replete with this particular fruit’s dominance. Just take the Christian story of creation, where a fruit was used as the plot device in what happened between Adam and Eve. Even while no mention is made of the actual type of fruit used, most people have come to substitute that incipient fruit as being the ultimate “bad apple”, as it were.