How people seem suddenly worried about ‘Artificial Intelligence’! It’s as if...
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In December 2010 I was a graduate student at University College London (UCL) working on what felt...
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On the 5th of May 2023 the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced that the enduring COVID-19...
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As you may have heard, the government of the United Kingdom is trying to pass an Online Safety...
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I sent my first tweet on the 17th of June 2009. It contained a six-word description of that...
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A consumer phenomenology of the digital
Somewhere in Plato’s work you’ll find an argument against writing. That’s...
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I’ve been thinking recently, about what form of political organisation I should put my time...
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What could post-collapse computing be?
Microchips are some of the most extraordinary objects humanity has ever made. This writes John...
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The political energy of fascism is colouring the horizons of Europe. The right wing of...
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It is hard to do away with metaphors, and we shouldn’t always want to. But some metaphors...
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Deskilling of workers and 'consumers'
A couple of weeks ago I talked about market-driven deskilling. I did this after thinking about...
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Text accessibility requires multiple formats
Language can be a stumbling block. How you write and present a text determines not only what you...
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It is common to interpret an epidemic as a sign of society’s moral failings. Syphilis...
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When nature stops playing along
David Hume’s problem of induction is one of the central puzzles of modern philosophy. It...
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Risk assessment in a changing world
I have noticed that when people think about risk, they only think about probability: How likely...
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In several wealthy countries basic literacy is declining year on year. Here I want to focus on...
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To celebrate the end of the year, I’ve gone through the songs and albums that I’ve...
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How bad would human extinction be? To my mind, it seems that it all depends on how it happens....
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What would happen if humans stopped being able to reproduce? The novelist P.D. James took the...
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Collingwood on nazism and fascism
R.G. Collingwood’s article ‘Fascism and Nazism’ (1940) is relevant to think...
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