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In a key plot point in the Back to the Future films, Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd), stuck in 1885, secretes the DeLorean time machine in an abandoned goldmine. Seventy years later, the machine is retrieved – dusty but intact and almost fully functional. The still, dry air of the mine, away
Susan Carland Academic, author and social commentator Whitney Monaghan Lecturer, Communications and Media Studies, Faculty of Arts Davide Orazi Senior Lecturer, Department of Marketing, Monash Business School Michael W Clune Author; Knight Professor of Humanities, Case Western Reserve University Clem Bastow Author and cultural critic lens.monash.edu Everyone wants
Simon Angus Simon pursues a thoroughly multi-disciplinary research agenda as a complexity and data scientist. He uses computational and data science techniques to study socioeconomic, biological, or physical phenomena. Simon’s interest in computational and algorithmic thinking started very early with much time spent on the family’s first computer
Alexandra Sims University of Auckland theconversation.com The use of artificial intelligence (AI) by New Zealand police is putting the spotlight on policing tactics in the 21st century. A recent Official Information Act request by Radio New Zealand revealed the use of SearchX, an AI tool that can draw connections
Stavroula Pabst Stavroula Pabst is a writer, comedian, and media PhD student at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Athens, Greece. Her writing has appeared in publications including Propaganda in Focus, Reductress, Unlimited Hangout and The Grayzone. brownstone.org As 2023 continues, the European Commission appears busy developing
Dave Patterson National Security Correspondent at LibertyNation.Com. Dave is a retired US Air Force Pilot with over 180 combat missions in Vietnam. He is the former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller and has served in executive positions in the private sector aerospace and defense industry. In addition
Andrew Lensen Victoria University of Wellington theconversation.com As the 2023 election campaign enters its final days, there is an elephant in the room that politicians seem keen to ignore: the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and what it will mean for New Zealand’s economy, politics and society. Developments
This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in
Back at the dawn of the automobile era, people were so concerned about these new-fangled infernal machines that drivers had to employ someone to walk in front of them waving a warning flag. But if the same people had had the mindset of the Climate Cult, they’d have been
Steven Tucker mercatornet.com Would you like to be paid for sitting at home all day doing nothing? If so, you could try getting in touch with Autonomy, a British-based think-tank currently seeking £1.6m in funding to give away £1,600 per month over the course of two years
Rohini Vijaygopal The Open University Rita Kottasz Roger Bennett Kingston University Like it or not, driverless cars will start to appear on our roads in the not too distant future. In theory, fully autonomous driverless vehicles will offer huge advantages to people with disabilities. Too often, people with disabilities face
Gabriela Pariseau Gabriela is an Assistant Editor in the Media Research Center’s Free Speech America division. She is a graduate of Christendom College where she earned a B.A. in History. Gabriela has also contributed to The Catholic Register, Arlington Catholic Herald, Students For Life of America and Iowa
If you think it’s a clever idea to send out a malware bot as a major recruitment campaign and still barely manage to suck in more than a couple of thousand confused Boomers, you just might be a “youth climate activist”. The “clever” online campaign was the brainchild of
This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in
Like mothers throughout human history, mine would often reprimand me for some childish act of group stupidity by asking, if my friends jumped off a cliff, would I do it too? Of course, I never gave her the honest answer: of course I would. Children are idiots and born followers.
