The danger in playing at being a machine is of course that we will lose sight of the fact that we are only playing. Machines don't have a concept of play, after all. A machine is quintessentially ‘black and white’...
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The one thing technology can never help us with is in being original - technology is all about ‘efficient duplication’, it’s all about the ‘realisation’ (or ‘reification’) of generic ideas, and this is another type of thing entirely. When we become...
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Any one of us can turn into a machine at the drop of a hat, and this can happen at any time. It can happen quite without warning – one moment you're human being, the next you're a mechanoid, a...
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