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No new oil, gas or coal development if world is to reach net zero by 2050, says IEA
The number of countries announcing pledges to achieve net-zero emissions over the coming decades continues to grow. But the pledges by governments to date –...
Are the brain implants of the future actually “thinking devices”?
“San Francisco of about two dozen tinkerers, Jonathan Toomim argued it was a logical next step. “We already use devices – our smart phones –...
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Oct 2019
Tree planting ‘has mind-blowing potential’ to tackle climate crisis (must-read via The Guardian)
“This new quantitative evaluation shows [forest] restoration isn’t just one of our climate change solutions, it is overwhelmingly the top one,” said Prof Tom Crowther...
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Jul 2019
‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia (via TheGuardian)
“There is growing concern that as well as addicting users, technology is contributing toward so-called “continuous partial attention�, severely limiting people’s ability to focus, and...
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Oct 2017
Rise of the machines: who is the ‘internet of things’ good for (via TheGuardian)
“the colonisation of the domestic environment by similarly networked products and services is intended to deliver a very different experience: convenience. The aim of such...
06
Jul 2017
Your animal life is over. Machine life has begun. The road to immortality. Great read via the Guardian!
“In his early teens, Koene began to conceive of the major problem with the human brain in computational terms: it was not, like a computer,...
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Mar 2017
Electric cars and cheap solar could halt fossil fuel growth by 2020 (The Guardian)
“Polluting fuels could lose 10% of market share to solar power and clean cars within a decade, the report by the Grantham Institute at Imperial...
04
Feb 2017
My comments on “What Black Mirror, Her and the near-future genre tell us about tomorrow” (TheGuardian)
I was recently interviewed by Noah Berlatsky and his piece just went online at TheGuardian “Taking after George Orwell and JG Ballard, some of the most...
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Nov 2016
Robots will eliminate 6% of all US jobs by 2021, report says (good read via The Guardian)
“By 2021 a disruptive tidal wave will begin. Solutions powered by AI/cognitive technology will displace jobs, with the biggest impact felt in transportation, logistics, customer...
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Sep 2016
Video and slides of my presentation at the Guardian Advertising Summit in London: Datawars and the Future of Privacy & Advertising
UPDATE: here is a transcript of my speech: Datawars and the Future of Advertising (600k PDF) Low res version via dropbox (10MB PDF approx) Low...
