Month: July 2017
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2040: Game Over?
There is a lot of comment about the UK government announcement that by 2040 they will ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars. Most of the comment seems to be ill informed, made by people with little or no understanding of the motor industry or technology. The government 2040 announcement is typical politics,…
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AI: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
As a teenager in the 80s I wrote an essay on how robots would end up being the next stage in human evolution. I had grown up reading great novels by people like Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clark, my family were all engineers and I was studying science and technology at college. The future…