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AI - pro & con
The arrival of various new text-generating programmes has made the debate about the nature and significance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) more serious and complex. Attention is being paid to the impact...
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Reporting robot rights
We read news reports in order to know what's going on. This, I imagine, is axiomatic ... but it must also be axiomatic that news reports are inherently a selection of what is really going. This is inevitable...
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Human ingenuity unit: Innovation in technology
This is one of a series of pages designed to illustrate how to go about developing unit plans for teaching the Themes. These should not be seen as complete downloadable packages, but rather as drafts...
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AI Digital Clones
Artificial Intelligence has become very much a part of the contemporary zeitgeist. As we have discussed on several pages, AI: This page looks at a different use for AI: to create digital clones of social...
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How money works
The ingenuity of money ... the whole point of this text is that money is a very clever and ingenious trick - we use cowrie shells or bits of printed paper to express the value of ... well, practically...
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Humour & technology
The ingenuity of humour ... this little video is witty: it makes a serious point (about the failure to be ingenious in adapting to change) in a humorous way. But what do we mean by 'humour'? Surely humour...
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Globalisation & history
The ingenuity of history ... we humans are pretty ingenious when it comes to telling ourselves stories about who we are and how we got here - 'history', in a word. Here at the beginning of the 21st Century,...
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Filter Bubbles & Echo Chambers
Despite various headlines decrying the death of social media, the evidence suggests that it is just as popular as ever. With 30% of people using social media to get their news, and concerns around disinformation...
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Skim reading...new normal Free
The evolution of ingenuity ... The use of language is ingenuity in action. The selection of words, the organisation of ideas, the adjustment to audience and context - all of these require the constantly...
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Playing with emojis
The word 'culture' contains a tangled complex of meanings. Consider the following aspects: So, if we wish to teach our students about 'Anglophone culture', we should consider all of these aspects - but,...