We all know very well what can happen when we try to access a blog post, article or other web content from several years ago. It’s a hit-and-miss situation: Even if it’s is still up, the page may have moved, links may no longer work, and content hosted elsewhere, such as images or videos, might be missing. The old text will likely be formatted completely differently, surrounded by dynamic content, such as current ads and related articles, being displayed out-of-context.
Fortunately, this does not happen very often in the scientific world, as academic articles are normally distributed as PDF files…
There is much hype around autonomous vehicles, and many are expecting a revolution to happen in the way that we get from A to B in the near future. Gone is the expectation that the self-driving car simply “slots into” the current ecosystem of roads, car parks, service stations, auto dealerships, etc. Instead, many people, including Lyft co-founder John Zimmer, are rightly beginning to question the whole concept of car ownership and why we allocate so much public space in our cities to car parking.
The potential of such a revolution is enormous, enabling us to regain street space used…
Tamir Hassan
Researcher in the Document Engineering field, musing about technology and how we interact with it
