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Month April 2007

If the robot shoots, who’s to blame?

“Imagine the miners strike with robots armed with water cannons, these things are coming, definitely.”
Interesting piece on the BBC website, looking at the ethical issues around the use of robots. Apparently Samsung is working on a robot which will have 2 cameras and a machine gun . . reminiscent of Aliens . . but to [...]

It seems that the TV series by Adam Curtis, The Trap: What happened to our dreams of freedom have made their way onto google . . just as well, the link I left earlier to info about the programs seems to have died. Watch it here!

Is change possible

Just had lunch with my brother and mother, during which she said that she was becoming quite depressed at her own growing scepticism about the possibility of real change (in the world).
I find this too. I think that this is a result of 2 main currents: Firstly, events which happen are so difficult to comprehend [...]

Are free newspapers destined for the dustbin of history?

London is getting sick of the enormous amount of litter generated by the 2 newest free newspapers available every day on our streets, according to MediaGuardian. I don’t travel by tube train myself, but have heard from friends how they find themselves wading through a dirty carpet of newprint . . ironic though, that in [...]