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I’m interested in the links between major technological breakthroughs and their deeper implications, examining how new tools reshape self-awareness, creativity, identity and our collective understanding of what it means to be human.
These articles explore the evolving relationship between technology, culture and consciousness — from intelligent systems and the intentions embedded in them to information networks, media, and the interpretive work of libraries, archives, galleries and museums — with the occasional neurotic detour into ageing and health.
Recent posts
Shutting the gate on reality: how AI will build the world around you
The web is becoming an invisible, personalised layer around us - and that may quietly seal us inside our own reality.
If the past is just a dataset, it can be re-weighted
How AI's ability to re-weight our collective history and private memory may create a radical, terrifying, and beautiful possibility: the end of fixed history.
Uncertain Intelligence: A Beginning or an End?
A reflection on Al's evolution - from Turing's vision to today's generative systems — exploring how learning machines mirror, challenge, and redefine humanity.
The Age of 'Hacking Humans': Harari on AI and the End of Free Will
Throughout history, leaders have sought new ways to exert influence and control. In Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari explores how AI could shift surveillance from passive monitoring to predictive behavioural control, potentially enabling digital dictatorships unless strong democratic safeguards are put in place now.
Review: The Experience Machine
Clark’s book explores how the brain actively constructs reality through prediction, revealing perception as a dynamic, generative process rather than passive sensing.
Building a Weather Platform
Building a live, data-driven system that pulls together real-time local readings, Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) radar maps, and coastal tide data.
Insulin resistance, Nitric Oxide, and high blood pressure
Insulin resistance has long been seen as a problem for diabetics, but emerging research shows it affects far more people — often undetected — and can drive serious cardiovascular, cognitive, and metabolic decline.
The Singularity is Nearer
Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Nearer updates his optimistic case for exponential AI, biotech and computing advances, arguing emerging breakthroughs confirm his timelines and foreshadow deep human–machine integration.