Thinking IT: Ideas of the future
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Affordable Use of Smart Paper to Communicate to the Disadvantaged Illiterate
Since 1820, the world’s literacy rate has gone up by only 12% according to the World Economic Forum (2022) whereas the literacy rate currently stands at more than 87% leaving 771 million people in the world illiterate according to UNESCO (2023) and that really is a huge number of people in an information age. If…
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Diopter Prescription Screen Adjustment App
As AI is becoming widely adopted in all aspects of civilization, ergonomics deserves a focus too for the development of solutions that will assist the efficiency of users not only in the work environment but also at home when doing tasks. An app that can take in the diopter prescription of a long-sighted user and…
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The ANC Must Leverage Effective Expert Advice
Going through the DA’s website we could see how they have a lot of information about the status of the country and also a track record of what they’ve done for the country as well as their goals. It would really help if the ANC was this transparent on their website, especially in reporting their…
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Changing the 13th Amendment
The 13th amendment seems to be perpetuating systemic racism in the USA as it is being abused in that black people are being arrested brutally, incarcerated and then treated poorly and unequally compared to other prisoners. The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment…
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Climate Change Goal Assistant
Climate Change is an exigent issue in the world today and many efforts are being made to tackle this critical global crisis. What is troubling is the slow turn around in companies around the world to make the necessary changes towards net zero emissions by 2050. The most important thing that companies can do to…
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Comments Section Summaries
Wouldn’t it be way more functional to group similar comments in the comments section and then send one message to reply to them all? Users everywhere would appreciate a reply from those who they are following who have up to millions of followers and comments. Companies would also appreciate the feedback from users and identify…
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Microservices
Software developers traditionally build systems using monolithic architecture where a software application is developed and deployed as one unit, not in modules, but with all the components and functionalities of the application tightly integrated and packaged together. This is changing now because this method does not allow for better modularity, scalability, and easier maintenance as…
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Digital Core Identity
So I’ve been reading the Accenture Tech Vision for 2023 and the subject of digital identity was very interesting and I would like to share some thoughts backed up by my research using ChatGPT. If we could re-engineer the Internet to authenticate users by their core identities, as per their birth certificates, government ID’s and…
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Personalizing Bulk Emailing
Electronic mail is tech that will not get outdated anytime soon even amidst the popularity of direct messaging. Emails provide an authentic form of communication between users and any organization that has a web presence uses them. Did you know that an email agreement can be considered contractual in the eyes of the law? According…
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New Technology & Faith
In this age of general AI we are witnessing a boom in new technology especially stemming from distributed ledgers, artificial intelligence, extended reality, and quantum computing. We are in the beginning of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and this means we are becoming increasingly dependent on technology as it is being woven into every fabric…