In parallel with the media fears that AI will bring about the collapse of Western civilisation, or at least the loss of jobs among journalis...

The death of the German public intellectual Jurgen Habermas at the age of 96 provides a useful starting point to consider the current develo...

One of the debates loosely collected under the rubric " The Great Stagnation " during the last decade was the question of why the ...

One of the more dispiriting developments following Donald Trump's election as 47th President of the USA is the return to prominence of C...

Predictably, the weekend riots across England have prompted press fulminations about the malign role of social media. This has evolved to th...

Gartner, the American technology research consultancy, launched its Hype Cycle in 1995 at a time when there was a lot of new hardware and so...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a misleading term because we don't have a full understanding of human intelligence yet, so the compariso...

Beyond the banality of stochastic parrots and their "hallucinations", AI exists as a socio-political thought-exercise: a what-if. ...

Most English Premier League football clubs have now introduced digital passes for ticket-holders. There have been teething problems, but the...