Artificial intelligence and other boogey men

Artificial intelligence and other boogey men

Everybody Panic! As night follows day, new technologies trigger moral panics. In the 1980s, the “video nasties” controversy erupted in Britain—as home video allowed unprecedented access to scary films like The Driller Killer (1979) and The Boogey Man (1980) while the...
Leaving HE? You have more skills than you think

Leaving HE? You have more skills than you think

‘A shrinkage is taking place,’ says Ding! co-founder Phil Gomm. Then, warming to his theme: ‘There’s an extinction event going on.’ And if, as he suggests, ‘you look at all the reports and if you look at the mood music, and the hostile environment that’s being...