Only a very small fraction of a much longer interview I did with leading digital activist and author Cory Doctorow ended up in last week’s Observer Review. We talked about so many wonderful things, that I thought I’d post the other bits up here.
Interview
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[Interview] Cory Doctorow on For The Win and what kids know about their digital rights
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[Observer] My Big Idea: Quantum physicist Vlatko Vedral
Wednesday March 10, 2010 @ 08:52 AM (UTC)Originally published in The Observer on 7 March 2010.
Professor Vlatko Vedral is a quantum physicist at the universities of Oxford and Singapore who grapples with the behaviour of energy and matter at subatomic scales, and this has led him to ask some bigger questions including why are we here? And what does it all mean? The 39-year-old, originally from Belgrade, passionately believes units of information – not particles – are the building blocks of humanity and everything that surrounds us. Information, he maintains, is what came before everything else. It is akin to God.
Vedral has set out his argument in a new book, Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information (OUP), in which he explains faith, love and teleportation.
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[Digital Revolution] Sherry Turkle, Facebook friendship and me
Thursday December 03, 2009 @ 11:42 AM (UTC)Meeting Prof. Sherry Turkle for BBC2’s Digital Revolution was a real thrill; her research was a massive instigator for my return to academia, and a cornerstone of my Masters research.
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[Digital Revolution] Tim Berners-Lee turns the tables and interviews me
Tuesday October 06, 2009 @ 07:22 PM (UTC)Tim Berners-Lee turned his ubiquitous Flip camera on me for a few minutes between takes when I was interviewing him for the BBC’s Digital Revolution programme in Abiriw, Ghana. If you want to find out what I really think about the revolutionary power of the Web, and what humans are doing to this phenomenal tabula rasa, view on:
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