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.

The computer goes clackety-clack

Despite the ubiquity of low-profile chiclet keys the mechanical keyboard is enjoying a dramatic resurgence.

Altspace, we hardly knew ye

Microsoft began laying off 11,000 workers in January and the refocus of the company’s business has also brought doubts about the corporate version of Altspace, Microsoft Mesh.

Some things, from somewhere, nowish

Today's trend to explorations of inner-space instead of outer-space began all the way back in 1979 with Octavia Butler's Kindred.

Bringing equity to women in ICT

"The conversation needs to be focused on young girls who aren't necessarily pushed into some fields."

Will ChatGPT fuel a Bing boom?

The version of ChatGPT that’s being offered online by Open.AI is subtly different from the one that’s implemented on Bing.

Strengthening cybersecurity for your business

"It's stunning to me. Organisations that I go into and the password is password. Some of them get really clever, and they do uppercase P."

The essential tensions of Carnival

The State’s hand on the balance of Carnival is heavy, and its lazy insistence on spending taxpayer money to foster pointless rivalry is demonstrably destructive.

Engaging youth in digital transformation

A Pew Research Centre study has shown that more than 60 per cent of young people, mostly teenagers, apply very specific filters to control who can see their information.

Ookla announces TT’s fourth-quarter broadband speeds

Among fixed networks, Digicel+ registered a latency of seven milliseconds (ms) followed by Amplia with 10 ms and Flow, with 18 ms. Blink delivered 40 ms.

The Philadelphia mistake

On September 28, 1918, 200,000 patriotic Americans gathered along a two-mile stretch of Broad Street to view floats, horse-drawn heavy artillery and marching bands.

The education transformation challenge

"There is a need to overhaul teacher education. The goal of education should be creating an environment for lifelong learning."

TTIGF begins tomorrow!

The event is being convened to explore the theme "Creating a Stronger, More Resilient Internet for Trinidad and Tobago's Shared, Sustainable Future."
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