Category: Tech
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Here Be Monsters Fremantle launch
An open invitation to the Fremantle launch …
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Here Be Monsters reviews
The reviews for HBM are coming in and, so far, have been enormously positive …
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Out on 1 May! My New Book, HERE BE MONSTERS: IS TECHNOLOGY REDUCING OUR HUMANITY?
Order your copy here!
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Machine Learning
Me on Schwartz Media’s The Weekend Read, reading my article on ChatGPT, published in the April edition of The Monthly
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Brave New Wild: Why ‘Resurrecting’ the Thylacine is a Dangerous Idea
In 2021 the National Film and Sound Archive released new footage of the last known thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger.
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Zero Gravity: Floating Towards Posthumanism
‘They say it got smart, a new order of intelligence’, rasps Kyle Reese in The Terminator, referring to the Skynet computer system that launched a nuclear attack against humanity in the catastrophe known as Judgment Day. The trope is as old as science fiction itself, and shadows the genre with all of the tenacity of…
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Suture Shock: Humanity goes under the knife
As we become ever more remote from ‘meatspace’, it’s worth considering the role the scalpel and the needle may play in that development.
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Not the debate we need: On mitochondrial donation
If a society consisted of human beings who had been partly engineered or edited, would we think about human life in the same way or would we lose a sense of reciprocity with others?
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Identity Crisis: Radical Gender Theory and the Left
In his latest series of documentaries Can’t Get You Out of My Head (reviewed by Guy Rundle in Arena Quarterly No. 6), sociologist and filmmaker Adam Curtis focuses on a number of individuals who sit at the uneasy intersection of modern individualism, an increasingly technologised vision of the human mind and human behaviour, and a…
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Go Slow and Break Things
The short decade between the global debt crisis and the election of Donald Trump to the US presidency was a time of great excitement on the Left. Like the devil in Baudelaire’s The Generous Gambler, capitalism’s power had been based on its ability to convince the world that it didn’t exist; but in the months and…