Tag: technology
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A short note on the reaction I’ve seen in response to my last blog post.
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Silicon Valley’s obsession with Artificial Intelligence is being driven by philosophies rooted in old fashioned notions of eugenics, neoliberalism and control
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In his latest book, Nick Clegg unveils a plan to keep the internet free and democratic. But does he understand the internet, or what his former Silicon Valley colleagues actually want?
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However you dress it up, Judge Dredd is a boys’ comic and one thing boys like is their toys. As someone who discovered the comic relatively late via the roleplaying game, the technology was one of its main appeals. Chief among these gadgets was Dredd’s gun, the Lawgiver, and Dredd’s motorcycle, the Lawmaster. It wasn’t…
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This week’s New Scientist features an article entitled Smartphone surveillance: The cop in your pocket (kerching). In it, a rather breathless Nic Fleming waxes lyrically about how, thanks to our smartphones, “we are all set to gain unprecedented crime-fighting abilities.” Sadly, however, it is not through being able to download mad martial arts skillz via…