Just watched ‘The Social Dilemma’, a new documentary which posits that Twitter, Facebook et al hook us in like drug dealers then use the huge amounts of data they collect to both control our lives and make their own fortunes. People have said that having watched it, they’ve immediately deleted everything and flushed their iPhones away. I don’t buy it. If these IT gurus were that clever, surely they could make a Covid tracing app that works? And arrange for Alexa to administer punishment if you break the rules? Having said all that, I was only half-watching, as I was checking my ‘phone…
“Advice firm Almond Financial moves to four-day working week”
The Four Day Week was much discussed and trailed post-COVID, when remote-working looked likely to end strap-hanging commutes for good and laptops on the kitchen table were to become the ’new norm’.