Category Archives: Culture
Hello, I’m a zombie. What brings you here today?
Some people think we’re ready to get psychological counselling from AIs. But in a tragedy...
Oct
It takes a Virtual Village
In “We are hopelessly hooked” (New York Review of Books, February 25), political historian Jacob...
May
On certain criticism of Frank Gehry
A letter to the editor, Sydney Morning Herald, January 14, 2011. The ABC screened a...
A letter on Free Speech and the Right to be Forgotten
An unpublished letter to New Yorker magazine, August 2015. Kelefa Sanneh (“The Hell You Say”,...
Man made software in His own image
In 2002, a couple of Japanese visitors to Australia swapped passports with each other before...
Jul
Suspension of Disbelief and digital safety
If the digital economy is really the economy then it’s high time we moved beyond...
Letter: Online threats do damage
A letter to the editor of The Saturday Paper, published Nov 15, 2014. In his...
Unintended consequences
The “Right to be Forgotten” debate reminds me once again of the cultural differences between...
Facebook’s lab rats
It’s long been said that if you’re getting something for free online, then you’re not...
Watson the Doctor is no laughing matter
For the past year, oncologists at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York...