We had a ‘God, games and gadgets’ workshop at St Peter’s church in West Harrow this month. Our big sci-fi question was ‘How could you tell if a machine – be it robot, android (a robot that looks exactly like a human) or computer was actually as intelligent as a human being?’ What did we [...]
How to spot a Brainy Machine.
We had a ‘God, games and gadgets’ workshop at St Peter’s church in West Harrow ...
My Robot Summer
Sounds like a great plot for a teen horror flick. Youth across the US head to a remote lakeside camp to build robots but then the nerd who out nerds all the other nerds builds a killer robot and wreaks revenge. Well it could happen. And clearly the robot camps do take place which makes [...]
Talking about a revolution.
I’m leading a seminar entitled ‘Revolution Facebook Style’ this summer at Soul Survivor. The thinking behind it was inspired by the Malcolm Gladwell article ‘Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted.’ Despite much being made of the role of social networking sites in recent political upheavals across the middle east and north Africa, [...]
Get happy, play Pac man: can video games improve your mood?
Ever had an intuition confirmed? It’s a wonderful feeling isn’t it, something you suspected to be true is sort of proved by someone else’s hard work and research. That’s how I felt reading the initial arguments of Jane McGonigals ‘Reality is Broken: why games make us better and how they can change the world.’ [...]
You Khan do it.
Salman Khan believes that he’s revolutionised our approach to education. It started when he began teaching Algebra to his cousins by posting short videos on youtube. It went viral and Khan, a graduate of MIT and Harvard, has now helped create over 2100 educational videos that can be accessed via youtube or his site. The [...]
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My Robot Summer
- The future isn’t bright, it’s stoopid.
- Show me your brain.
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Why teens don’t have rebellious brains
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Trusting you, trusting me, not so easy thanks to FB.
