Crikey it's happening, one of my once in a blue moon musings!
I've been watching tech long enough to have seen a few gold rushes. The PC era, the dot-com bubble, mobile, cloud... each one had its "this changes everything" moment, followed by a settling down into something either genuinely useful or quietly forgotten. I wrote a piece a few years back reviewing old blog posts and was struck by how many technologies I'd written about with real enthusiasm that simply no longer exist. The Pebble. Microsoft Band. Microsoft basically anything from that era, to be honest.
So when I try to make sense of where we are in 2026, I'm doing it with that lens on. Cautious optimism, let's call it.
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Since my last article on Quiggles.net in 2021, the technological landscape has undergone significant transformations. This overview captures the major developments and trends that have emerged, reflecting on their implications and future directions. I wanted to write a post to explore advancements in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), cybersecurity, hardware innovations, and software development, offering a perspective on the state of technology today.
1. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
AI in Everyday Life
Artificial intelligence has seen remarkable progress, becoming more integrated into everyday applications. Voice assistants like Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple’s Siri have become more sophisticated, understanding context better and performing more complex tasks. These AI systems have improved in natural language processing (NLP), making interactions more intuitive and human-like.
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Read more: Overview of Technological Advancements Since 2021
Clearly I don't blog as often as I perhaps should but hey is anyone reading any of this anyway? 🤷♂️😆
I thought I'd do a quick review of some of the articles and see where they stood in late 2021. So here we go...
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As we approach the UK General Election in May, there seems to be a growing feeling of “why should I bother to vote, as they are all the same”. So it occurs to me that a lot of our decision making is based on a number of headline facts, rather than a detailed analysis of the parties’ manifestos.
But frankly who wants to trawl through the pages of all these manifestos to find out whether a party really stands up for the things you find important in life? Currently there are 12 parties with representation in the house of common, and many more that would like seats - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_the_United_Kingdom
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A YouTube video going viral at the moment is "The Expert", and no wonder...
I'm pretty sure anybody with any technical capabilities, myself included, have been "The Expert" in meetings like this...
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Recently have become interested in bitcoin's, and will probably write further about it in future posts. However the thought for today is "what the hell is going on with the bitcoin price?!".
My interest started only about three weeks ago, when the price was about £90 for one bitcoin, today it is very likely to hit £180! I thought the route forward might have been bitcoin mining, but I wish I had now bought into the currency a few weeks back and just did a bit of currency trading…
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As someone who works in IT and therefore spends a lot of time in front of a computer screen, I'd long realised that it's very easy to get distracted. One of the other areas that concerned me was the fact that because of the highly accessible nature of information, are we, (am I?!), losing the ability to learn?
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I started blogging occasionally some years back, circa 2008 I guess; and it's been pretty on and off since then. However it's been on a couple of platforms like wordpress and blogspot etc. Over the coming weeks I'm going to try and gather up some of those old articles and republish them here. However I'm going to republish them with their original publication date, so that this site has some sense of chronological order. Please excuse the mess in the meantime, and perhaps enjoy some of these old musings. I will also tag them with the tag "old blog".
I won't move across all articles, probably leaving behind anything that is just opinion, is very dated or just lacks any real relevance. If you really want to see it, most of it's at garyquigley.wordpress.com.
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Look's like I've always been keen on the idea of blogging, but as per now, not very good at doing it on a regular basis...
Why do I say that - I've literally just falling across a blog that I started back in 2004 and had completely forgotten about!
See my pointless ramblings at http://cheekie.blogspot.co.uk/!
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