Author: Connor Tomas O’Brien

Over the past couple of nights, I’ve been making way through Journey. The game is stunningly, ridiculously visually beautiful: I’ve never thought computer-generated sand could literally give me shivers. There’s also a sense of beauty, however, to the gameplay mechanics – in particular, to the way in which the game manages online multiplayer. Journey revolves…

Rumours are floating around that Apple will shortly announce plans to shake up the textbook industry. Whether or not this eventuates as rumoured, Apple devices are showing up in an increasing number of classrooms. I’m deeply ambivalent about the relationship between technology and the education system. I think Steve Jobs summed up my feelings nicely…

Over the past year, the most important lesson I’ve learnt while freelancing is: pick your clients carefully. Even if you’re relatively desperate for graphic and web design work (and you probably won’t be for long), it’s best to err on the side of caution if you believe a prospective client might be Bad News. (I’d…

Ben Brooks: That’s my largest fear with the Google X lab. Google has proven many times over that they can indeed make some really cool stuff. The problem is that they largely fail at creating practical, consumer, applications for their products that they dream up (Google Wave, for example. Google TV as another example.) Kyle…

A lot has been written already about the future of the book. And yet, the words keep flowing (sometimes in books, but most often in the online spaces we believe are drawing us away from books). We find the conversation interesting and important because there’s a sense that books are the receptacles of our shared…