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Escape from model land – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
“Models are best for understanding, but they are inherently wrong,” Helen Dacre said, evoking robotics engineer Bill Smart on sensors. Dacre was…
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Aspirational intelligence – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally posted on pelicancrossing.net “All commandments are ideals,” he said. He – Steven Croft, the Bishop of Oxford – had just finished…
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In sync – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on pelicancrossing.net Until Wednesday, I was not familiar with the use of “sync” to stand for a music synchronization license…
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Can Games help us to make the word a better place?
Takeaways from Games For Good – Cybersalon 25th January 2018 Over 2.2 bln people world-wide will be playing games in 2018. A…
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Bodies in the clouds – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on pelicancrossing.net This year’s Computers, Privacy, and Data Protectionconference had the theme “The Internet of Bodies”. I chaired the “Bodies…
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Ding! – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on pelicancrossing.net The end of the year seems a good moment for complaints. The Guardian has gone all out with 2017…
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Counterfactuals – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on pelicancrossing.net On Tuesday evening, virtual reality pioneer and musician Jaron Lanier, in London to promote his latest book, Dawn…
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The Brave New World of Work Surveillance
Takeaways from Watching Me Watching You Cybersalon 11th October 2017 Lord Kelvin noted back in 1890 that ‘what can be measured, can be…
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