On June 9th 2013 Edward Snowden revealed himself to be the man responsible for leaking classified information from the National Security Agency to the news media. The rest of the story should be pretty familiar to everybody by now (although this clip from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver suggests otherwise). If you are one of the […]
Archives for February 2015
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As this section develops it will explore the dangers which may arise if we misunderstand the impact the rise of the robots will have on our society. We introduce the term hamartia; the idea that faulty diagnoses will lead to faulty prescriptions of action, and examine some current proposals which exemplify this. Chief among these is the misconception that […]