Want to keep yourself up to date with the latest news from Reflections on Technology, Media & Culture?
Subscribe using the "Follow" button below and we provide you with customized updates, via topic or tag, that get delivered to your email address, your smartphone or on your dedicated news page on follow.it.
You can unsubscribe at any time painlessly.
Title of Reflections on Technology, Media & Culture: "Reflections on Technology, Media & Culture – Richard Coyne"
Is this your feed? Claim it!
It’s a corny question: “Do AIs have feelings?” I can sophisticate it with the follow-up, “What difference would it make if we believe they do?”
I’ve been reviewing earlier posts in order, with a view to bringing them up to date. There are six that were about emotion, movement and mobility: #202
This title (“This is not the age of AI”) emerges not from any skepticism I might hold about AI, but the idea of “an age.” I’m revisiting my post of 2014: Zeitgeist busters #201 in which I vented skepticism about the idea of ...
Celestial orbits and the Earth’s axial tilt contribute to variation in cyclical events: seasons, tides, weather, usefully described as rhythms by Henri Lefebvre in his book Rhythmanalysis.
Most music and human-animal movements, habits, practices and social interactions, involve rhythm — characterised by repeated cycles and counter-movements — and complex ov...
Soil is ground-up rock (minerals) combined with organic matter, water and air. As far as we know it is unique to planet Earth and typically extends just a few metres beneath the surface. In ancient Greek chthōn is soil; autós is self.
I’m updating my entry of 14 May 2014: