Monthly Archives: May 2008

The Rise of the Machines

By Ray Watkins | Published: May 30, 2008
Just as, today, we have no living memories of a time before the existence of radio, we will soon live in a world in which no one living experienced growing up in a society without computers. It is for this reason that we must try to examine what we stand to lose and gain, before it is too late. Susan Greenfield and others are right that there is no necessary correlation between technological and moral progress, and that unintended consequences have proliferated from all those leaps humanity has made over the last hundred and even thousands of years. In the past, such losses have barely registered in our daily lives, because those who could tell us about them were long...
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Aretha Franklin – Don’t Play That Song For Me

By Ray Watkins | Published: May 28, 2008
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