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The Illusion of a Ready-Made Future – Manifesto for Courage

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9 November 2017 | Birgit Hütten, Guest Contributor

During his nine-month travel through the New World, French aristocrat Alexis de ... »

The Singularity Is Delayed

21 digital myths

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31 October 2017 | Per Strömbäck

Math Contest: How Many Years Before the Singularity Comes in 2050 It used to ... »

“No Time for Tech Fatalism”

Tech-Fatalism and automation. The future of work.

13 September 2017 | Per Strömbäck

Three Questions to Evarist Bartolo, Minister for Education and Employment of Mal... »

EU Parliament Votes to Control AI – but not to rescue those who lose their jobs to robots

17 February 2017 | Peter Warren

MEPs have approved rules for keeping humans firmly in charge of Artificial Intel... »

Random Guesses Inevitable

25 August 2016 | Ralf Grötker, Journalist

Book Review: Kevin Kelly, The Inevitable. Understanding the 12 Technological For... »

Europe vs Robots: Round 1

4 August 2016 | François Troussier, contributor

“From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein's Monster to the classical myth of Pygmalion, ... »

Digital Myth: Automation kills more jobs than it creates

28 June 2016 | Per Strömbäck, editor Netopia

Digital Myths: #6 - Automation has made a lot of jobs obsolete. New jobs came in... »

When the Big Data Sums Do Not Add Up

18 May 2016 | Peter Warren, Michael Streeter and Jane Whyatt

None of this might matter if we could be sure – really sure – that such data gat... »

Meet the Machines Behind the Internet of Things

2 May 2016 | Peter Warren, Michael Streeter and Jane Whyatt

Machines are not the android-style robots of science fiction. It is perhaps prec... »

What is the Internet of Things?

28 April 2016 | Peter Warren, Michael Streeter and Jane Whyatt

Put simply, the Internet of Things (IoT) is a collection of sensors attached to ... »