Tag: Third Way

Apple 9 this Weds | The Price We Pay for Technology is Alienation

Nov 15, 2010

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KB

in Apple, Blogs | Social Networks | New Media, Emerging Church, Philosophy, Technology

Apple – the series of talks trying to think more deeply about technology – is back this Weds with the 9th event (7:30pm, The Betsey Trotwood, 56 Farringdon Road). The title is ‘Digital Obesity’ and will be a panel discussion with Simon Jenkins of ShipOfFools, Gavin O’Carrol from the Digital Health Service and Vaux’s own…
Alan Turing: Can Machines Think? | Third Way

Feb 22, 2010

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KB

in Apple, Emerging Church, Philosophy, Technology

I’ve a short piece on Alan Turing in this month’s Third Way. If you don’t already subscribe, you should. One of the key strands of Turing’s thinking was on whether a machine could think like a human. After World War 1, where men had been treated like disposable fighting machines, and World War 2, where…