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How vulnerable is the world?
Sooner or later a technology capable of wiping out human civilisation might be invented. How far...
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The problem with prediction
Cognitive scientists and corporations alike see human minds as predictive machines. Right or wrong, they will...
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The body as mediator
The phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty entwines us, via our own beating, pulsing, living bodies, in the...
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Zoom and gloom
Sitting in a videoconference is a uniformly crap experience. Instead of corroding our humanity, let’s design...
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What do shoes do?
Partly of the earth, partly of our body, the shoe sits on the edge of an...
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The space between our heads
Brain-to-brain interfaces promise to bypass language. But do we really want access to one another’s unmediated...
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Why superheroes are the shape of tech things to come – Iwan Rhys Morus | Aeon Essays
Superman et al were invented amid feverish eugenic speculation: what does the superhero craze say about...
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Ancient animistic beliefs live on in our intimacy with tech – Stephen T Asma | Aeon Ideas
When Alexa replied to my question about the weather by tacking on ‘Have a nice day,’...
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How social and physical technologies collaborate to create – J Doyne Farmer, Fotini Markopoulou, Eric Beinhocker and others | Aeon Essays
Our world is a system, in which physical and social technologies co-evolve. How can we shape...
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How Confucius loses face in China’s new surveillance regime – Philip Ivanhoe | Aeon Ideas
While conceived of and functioning differently in diverse contexts, ‘face’ describes a phenomenon that exists in...
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Robogamis are the real heirs of terminators and transformers – Jamie Paik | Aeon Ideas
Ask anyone what image comes to mind when you say the word ‘robot’, and there’s no...
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Is artificial-womb technology a tool for women’s liberation? – Sasha Isaac | Aeon Ideas
While some women experience pregnancy and childbirth as joyful, natural and fulfilling, others find themselves recoiling...
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Privacy matters because it is the only power people have left – Carissa Véliz | Aeon Essays
Don’t just give away your privacy to the likes of Google and Facebook – protect it,...
