Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
The Cult of Donald Trump
David Canter considers the parallels between religious beliefs, and cults, with those followers of ex-President Trump who have a faith that he can be considered God-like.
Neuromania – Or Where Did the Person Go?
David Canter bemoans how people are disappearing as ‘brains’ take over.
The Perils of (Even Very Minor) Celebrity
David Canter considers the confusions inherent in being (even very moderately) well-known. That has implications for the considerably greater misinformation that gets linked to those who are very well-known indeed.
How Social Science Can Hurt Those It Loves
David Canter rues the way psychologists and other social scientists too often emasculate important questions by forcing them into the straitjacket of limited scientific methods.
The Long Arm of Criminality
David Canter considers the daily reminders of details of our actions that have been caused by criminality.
The Fog of War
David Canter considers the psychological and organizational challenges to making military decisions in a war.
Why Don’t Algorithms Agree With Each Other?
David Canter reviews his experience of filling in automated forms online for the same thing but getting very different answers, revealing the value systems built into these supposedly neutral processes.
Did Turing Miss the Point? Should He Have Thought of the Limerick Test?
David Canter is horrified by the power of readily available large language technology.
