What playing The Sims 2 taught me — Ever since I’ve been using a computer, I spent hours in this little world that I had a part in creating. Finding comfort and enjoyment in being a tiny dictator over my Sims’ lives as they went to work, decorated their houses, and built relationships. There’s no winning or losing…

How e-waste is trashing the environment. — We are living during a time where so many of our daily tasks have been made easier with devices. Rapid innovation and lower costs have dramatically increased access to electronic products and digital technology. This has led to an increase in the use of electronic devices and equipment worldwide. According…

In human beings’ eternal quest to understand ourselves better, there is one part of the internet that indulges. — The Internet as a Personality Quiz On the internet, everything we do is like taking a personality quiz. Every website visit, web search, ‘like’ and click reveals something about us. Except, in this case, we’re not the only ones who see the results. …

Marie Kondo your browser. — In the time it takes you to read this sentence, over 1 million Whatsapp messages will be sent, 1000 minutes of videos will be uploaded on YouTube. Living in the information age, the speed at which content is created, shared and consumed is nearly impossible to process. Digital clutter is…

With life being lived increasing online, how is it that we have thought so little about our ‘digital death’? — Data surpassed oil as the world’s biggest commodity in 2017. Our data is constantly being ‘harvested, collected, modelled and monetised’. We live in a hyper-connected world where things don’t seem to have happened unless you post about it. An emotion hardly seems validated until it’s been shared with others online…

It seemingly promises to eradicate today’s uncertainty. — There is always a rise in predictions and trends for the future, especially towards the end of the year. For something that hasn’t even happened yet, the future sure occupies a lot of our brain space. This year, however, it feels a little different. After Covid-19 and all its variants…