Bird's Eye View

Category: Social

WTF is: Open RAN

Calls for common 5G standards are growing as more begin to ask the question, “If not Ericsson, Nokia, and Huawei, then who?”

December 20, 2021
Social Media is manipulating you

Not so long ago, I found myself deleting my social apps, removing accounts, and blocking notifications…

December 12, 2021
I Don’t Like To Look At Suicide

After any tragedy comes a wave of explanations – some find them in the web of sociological constructs, while others believe that by overanalysing, we lose the substance that’s been staring at us all along.

November 21, 2021
I Like To Look At Suicide

Amid several cries that Malta has lost its soul, one can hardly be faulted for wondering…why did we encourage this person to lose his?

November 20, 2021
Free Buses will not get more people to use them

In the Budget 2022 document, the government has promised that by October 2022, all Maltese residents will have free access to public transport. But what about the countless issues with the service? Will those who are enticed with the free transport keep using it in the long run?

October 18, 2021
Code Red: Global Climate Strike

On the 18th of September, Extinction Rebellion Malta will be protesting in solidarity with the rest of the global climate strike movement and asking our politicians to treat this crisis like the emergency it is.

September 9, 2021
Can we create Healthy Economies without growth?

There is an urgent need to start thinking about how we can run our economies without growth, and a range of economic alternatives may now show us how to do just that.

September 8, 2021
The unfairness of being on an island

There are disadvantages to living on an island, but the quality of island life can be its own reward. In Europe, life on an island means you can lose your freedom of movement rights.

August 26, 2021
How does GDP affect me?

In the last article, ‘WTF is: GDP’ I tried to briefly explain what GDP is and how its calculated – but a very often asked question does remain…How does it affect us? Sure, governments tend to do well politically when GDP is high, and people seem to be more satisfied when it is – but…

August 20, 2021
WTF is: GDP

If you were to put everything that was produced in the country, in one single bag, and give it all a value, that value would be the country’s GDP.

August 20, 2021