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Pascal’s Wager and the future of Humanity
“There is no point trying to resist technological change … or … trying to delay the process. On the contrary, given the coming technological changes, how can we best prepare?” (Kristina Persson,...
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Being Human in the Digital Age
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to participate in the 2016 Sydney Link Festival as part of a panel facilitated by Narelle Clarke, and with Jamie Engel and Angie Abdilla. The topic we focused on...
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WebSci16 and the art and science of the web
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. (Arthur C. Clarke) We now live in a world of magic. One where a handful of very smart people (mostly white males), who now have...
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We’re all being transformed, whether we like it or not …
Last week Web Science celebrated its tenth birthday. This week the UK’s Government Digital Service celebrated it’s fifth birthday and it’s story of those five years. These two milestones are important...
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#braveconversations – we need to talk!
www.braveconversations.org Web Science is becoming increasingly important. As JP Rangaswami writes in one of his recent blog posts We need to get better at studying the impact of change over time....
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Being brave
Last week in an article in the Financial Review renown businessman David Gonski talked about the commoditisation of the professions. Let’s be professional and fight artificial intelligence. (David...
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Who represents the human in the digital age?
A version of this was written for NPC’s “State of the Sector” report. What do we mean by “digital”? In his book The Code Economy [1] Philip E. Auerswald talks about the long history of humans...
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Sleepers, Awake!
(Quote from David Brin) On 1st March Ariana Huffington posted an article entitled “The Great Awakening” which stated that For most of the internet’s young life, the assumption of virtue was built in —...
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Adventures in Tavi-land
Thus grew the tale of Taviland: Thus slowly, one by one, Its quaint events were hammered out – And now the tale is done. (Tavistock Lecture Dr Eliat Aram, 2018). The Tavistock Institute was founded in...
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