The next time I see it, I will have to look it up again. For one thing, five minutes after I have looked up the name of a flower, or whatever, I have usually forgotten it. It used to feel marvellous to live in an age of such easy access to facts, but now I am not so sure. As night falls, I will remain there, absorbed by my star-identification app. I will just stand there, checking, identifying, reading, paralysed by my own curiosity. Much more of this and I will grind to a halt completely. Or I would stop to point the camera at a plant, or at a songbird, or – dear God – at a bloody pebble. Every other minute, I would glance at the sky or the sea – and then at my phone. This madness has to stop.Īn image of myself walking on an idyllic coastal path came to mind. Can’t say I had ever wondered, but now you mention it … I clicked to download, but stalled just in time. Show it a pebble and it will tell you what kind of stone it is. On my Twitter feed today, an advert popped up for – I kid you not – a stone-identifying app.

Sweet.īut a straw has broken the camel’s back. No more wondering what that beautiful flower or tree is: take a pic and everything you want to know about it will be yours. Things got better and worse with the advent of nature apps.

It had just left a city I had never heard of on the Yangtze for a port I had never heard of in Australia. Why, only the other night, just nodding off, I was pinged interesting tidings about the SSI Excellent, a bulk carrier registered in the Marshall Islands (deadweight: 81,119 tonnes) that I saw in the Bristol Channel last summer. The ship app goes one further – unbidden, it tells me where ships I once identified are now to be found. The installation, completed with channel partner Besco, combines Pebble’s world class Automation, Integrated Channel and Pebble Remote solutions, to bring 11 fully redundant channels to air.And that ship out there on the ocean blue, halfway to the horizon? Soon I didn’t have to wonder where it was off to, either. This is a joint win together with our channel partner Besco and customer CJ OliveNetworks! 🙌👌💪ĬJ OliveNetworks has launched one of the most technically advanced multichannel setups in APAC.

We have won an award under the Terrestrial Broadcasting category at the APB+ (Asia-Pacific Broadcasting+) 2023 Awards! 🥳🏆

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