Mark Lyndersay

Mark Lyndersay is a writer and photographer based in Trinidad and Tobago. He wrote 1,800 editorial leaders for Guardian Media Limited between 2001 and 2016 and now provides leaders for the T&T Newsday. He writes features and reviews for several publications. His column, BitDepth has examined personal technology issues continuously over the last 27 years. As a photographer, he divides his time between commercial assignments, editorial photography, annual reports and personal projects like Local Lives, which examines the backstory of life and culture in Trinidad and Tobago.

In a US university film lab, a Trini is working and learning

Most people are pressing buttons. The work is in defining what the buttons do.

Declaring independence from mobile roaming

Most modern smartphones, even those with a physical SIM tray, will also accept an e-SIM.

Urgency, awareness needed to combat sextortion

While social platforms make it easy for crimes to cross borders and infiltrate households, law enforcement remains limited by the transnational agreements that enable effective policing across borders.

The silent, growing danger of ransomware

Victims of ransomware continued to carry critical patch vulnerabilities even after being attacked.

How should a newsroom of the (very near) future work?

When generic content becomes easier to produce, the advantage that we have shifts to what is harder to replicate and that is original journalism.

FNP’s halting stumble to dubious relevance

There are 282,000 fixed line subscribers in Trinidad and Tobago. That number has been dropping incrementally year over year declining 16.1 percent between 2024 and 2025.

Samsung’s big bet on AI

"Gemini can now use advanced reasoning to understand your screen context, parse complex images as prompts, and execute multi-step actions across apps.”

The data centre dilemma

Discourse, instead of a patronising pat on the head asking whether you have a doctorate, should govern communication between a government and the people who elected them.

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How should business and government embrace AI?

"Very few people in the world can quantify the fiscal value of AI." - Anton Alexander

A request of readers

This is what's been happening since Newsday went away.

How influencer marketing works in the Caribbean

You have to really trust in this influencer to represent your brand, to be an advocate, to be the voice of your brand.
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