June 21, 2022

{Podcast} Dynamism & Imagination: the secret to smarter cities

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What is Dynamism & Imagination? Imagining Future Cities and how we might live, work and play in them, is one of my guilty pleasures and is seems it's also Emily Bobit's as well, when we caught up recently on her podcast Byte Size, a series where she talk to traffic and mobility experts, discuss innovations, [...]

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June 14, 2022

{Radio} Bots have feelings too, you know

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Or do they? Blake Lemoine an Alphabet engineer working on an AI Google chat bot names LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) thinks they might. His belief is that his Bot has reached sentient level, the notion, that technology has humanlike feelings and is having independent thoughts, he is so adamant that he took Google […]

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May 20, 2021

{Radio} 5 Accidental inventions we can’t live without

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What is 5 Accidental inventions we can't live without? Sometimes the greatest inventions come from our biggest mistakes. Imagine being asked to invent a glue to help airplanes stick together and instead you came up with a glue that doesn't stick anything together permanently! Oops, 3M's Dr Spencer Silver's bad, or you could take anot.How [...]

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April 20, 2021

{Radio} Plugging directly into your brain

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What is Plugging directly into your brain? Brain Computer Interfaces are getting a lot of attention lately, as they try and figure out the science of directly wiring your brain to the internet and to tech. At first glance its seems far fetched and story, but take it into the land of disability and what [...]

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April 13, 2021

{Radio} Can you kill the internet?

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What is Can you kill the internet? On the back of a BBC News article "FBI arrest man over alleged Amazon centre bomb plot" Hong Kong Radio 3's Phil Whelan asked me the question- Can you kill the internet" The short answer is most probably Yes! Countries regularly turn off the internet or limit acces [...]

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March 16, 2021

{Radio} Future of Toys

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What is Future of Toys? Everything old is new again and this was never truer than in COVID toy sales, when nostalgia, retro and family time were the main drivers of an impressive rise in global toy sales. And toys purchases weren't contained to just the 60,000,000 children globally who had someone in th.Why do [...]

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