Talk: Science, modernity and the post-human
This question of ‘What does it mean to be human’ has come up time and time again throughout my careerContinue Reading
Tag: Personhood
Review: ‘Alone together – Why we expect more from technology and less from each other’ by Sherry Turkle
Sherry Turkle has an important and influential voice in current debates about interactions between humans and machines. She trained asContinue Reading
Review: ‘Hello World – How to be human in the age of the machine’ by Hannah Fry
This is a popular level, readable, up-to-date and well-informed introduction to algorithms and machine intelligence, published in 2018. The titleContinue Reading
Review: ‘Life 3.0 – Being human in the age of artificial intelligence’ by Max Tegmark
Tegmark is a MIT physicist who was one of the founders of the Future of Life Institute, dedicated to theContinue Reading
Essay: How technology changes the way we understand ourselves
Human beings have always tried to understand themselves by comparison with the leading technologies of the time. For many centuriesContinue Reading