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Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable... →
Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it's artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.
From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world... →
Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.
Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed in car accidents around the... →
As a medium, electronic screens possess infinite capacities and instant interconnections, turning words into a new kind of active agent in the world.
We are all amateur attention economists, hoarding and bartering our moments - or watching them slip away down the cracks of a thousand YouTube clips.
Once the words of a book appear onscreen, they are no longer simply themselves; they have become a part of something else. They now occupy the same... →
As commentators like the American psychologist Gary Marcus have noted, it's extremely difficult to teach a computer to recognise cats. And... →
Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to... →
For all the sophistication of a world in which most of our waking hours are spent consuming or interacting with media, we have scarcely advanced in... →
For the moment, machines able to 'think' in anything approaching a human sense remain science-fiction. How we should prepare for their... →
I love video games. I'm also slightly in awe of them. I'm in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of... →
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