Woo hoo, I’m loving Beyonce’s new look. I’m a big fan of curls, the bouncier the better, and Beyonce’s feisty red bouncies are hot, hot, hot. Shirley Temple eat your heart out.
If you fancy some bouncies yourself, here’s a step-by-step guide from ELLEgirl magazine to achieving big, glamorous, bouncy curls.
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In our relentless pursuit of knowledge and hunger for artificial intelligence, human beings will score an own goal and wipe themselves out. It’s a dead cert that before long, we’ll build a machine so intelligent that it will act in ways we never predicted.
A predatory machine - or robot for want of a better word - that pushes humans into second place and takes over the earth, is not as far fetched as we’d like to believe. The artificial intelligence that will make humans (as we know them) defunct was born the day the telephone was invented and has evolved ever since. We’re the parents of an intelligence that will steal our planet.
The toddler years of our killer is everywhere. Self-service checkouts in supermarkets. Sat Nav systems that will develop into robotic cars that require no human interaction. Once upon a time, our only means of paying a bill was to nip to the post office with a giro slip and cheque, where we’d wait patiently (or inpatiently) in a queue to speak to a human face. Now technology does it for us without the need for human interaction.
Businesses are constantly looking for ways to save cash. Paperless systems. Voice recognition. Exporting business abroad. Forget all that. The real saving will come when voice recognition reads our thoughts. Telepathy is only a matter of time. It will start with a magnetic chip in the brain. As with everything, to begin with only the rich will be able to afford it. Eventually it will be standard practice to implant a chip in the brain of every newborn baby.
Depending on your opinion of telepathy, that’s when the real fun will start. Humans will hand the earth over to artificial intelligence and migrate elsewhere. We’ll be able to ‘think’ ourselves anywhere, including other planets which, of course, will make the search for extraterrestrial life as easy as clicking our fingers.
Top tip for NASA: Stop throwing dead cash at the development of space shuttles that are destined for the universal scrapheap. Start looking closer to home. We already have the perfect vehicle for space exploration. It’s called the brain.
Hard, edgy and cool, if I buy one thing this month it will be these uber-amazing 5 inch heels. Guaranteed to overshadow any dress, these shoes have serious personality. Bring it on.
Talking of foxy, here’s a fun dressing up game to pass a few minutes. Drag and drop (some oh so last decade) fashion garments, lingerie, shoes and accessories on to the model to calculate your foxitude!
