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The Savvy Scot

Personal finance and lifestyle blog

Viewing category: Futurism

How Social Media Has Transformed the World

By savvyscot

Social Media has taken over the world. Quite a bold statement, I know; but consider how things have changed over the last couple of decades. Back in the nineties, you would look in the local newspaper to find a review of a good restaurant. Considered impartial, the ‘Food and Drink’ column was a great way… Read more

Filed Under: Entertainment, Futurism Tagged With: HMV intern controls twitter, importance of reviews, social media changing the world, social media for businesses, why are reviews important?

The 3 Best Budget-Friendly Tablets

By savvyscot

Last week Apple announced a press conference for the 23rd of October with the expectation being that they are about to unveil the iPad Mini. Whilst the iPad is still ‘the’ tablet to buy for those of us who have deep pockets, it’s not the most affordable tablet on the market. However, there are tablets… Read more

Filed Under: Futurism, Guest Posts, Technology Tagged With: budget tablets, iPad Mini, iPad Mini contract, New Small iPad, Top 3 tablet, Top Tablets

Saving Money with Green Business Improvements

By savvyscot

Green Business Improvements

When it comes to making improvements to your business, the first thing that likely comes to mind is a brand new office, maybe upgrading the company vehicles, or hardware such as computers/phones/peripherals. In reality, the same principles apply to your own home. One thing that may not be at the top of the list, but… Read more

Filed Under: Futurism, Reflection Tagged With: business improvements, Go Green, green business improvements, recycle and save money, save money by going green, save money by protecting the climate

Mix Match – A Free University Course / Car Updates / Presenting Tip / My Blog is Growing!

By savvyscot

Free University Courses: No this is not a catchy title to try and get people to read my blog – today The  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has launched its first free course – MITx, an electronics course – which is entirely virtual. MIT aim to ‘shatter the barriers of education’. While there already hundreds of… Read more

Filed Under: Education, Futurism, Insurance, Personal Finance, Saving Money, Self Development Tagged With: Education, Free University Course, Insurance, Saving Money

The Future of Giving

By savvyscot

How many people regularly donate money to charity? I am currently planning a post written around how to integrate doing what you want to do and what you think you should do; so there will be more on this to come; but in the mean time here is some food for thought: I have been… Read more

Filed Under: Charity, Futurism, Personal Finance Tagged With: Charity, Finance, Giving, Kiva, Microloans

Somebody’s Watching You

By savvyscot

One of today’s headlines on the BBC is that a guy has been refused entry to the USA for stating on twitter he was ready to ‘destroy’ the place. While many people think that this is a bit extreme, it’s certainly a wake up call to us all that social media / the Internet is… Read more

Filed Under: Futurism, Transport Tagged With: Big brother Culture, privacy

Are You Still Interested in the Future?

By savvyscot

interested in the future

I put a lot of thought into deciding upon a topic for this next post. I figured that those of you who decided to come back (if any) would be judging this blog pretty heavily over the first few posts. Today I want to talk a little bit about futurism! What is futurism you may… Read more

Filed Under: Futurism Tagged With: future, Futurism, The Future, Trends

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