by John Wyatt August 20, 2020 Number of comments0 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
by John Wyatt April 7, 2020 Number of comments0 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
by John Wyatt April 7, 2020 Number of comments0 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
by John Wyatt April 7, 2020 Number of comments0 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
by John Wyatt January 10, 2020 Number of comments0 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