The Serendipity Engine gets its first outing on Monday 8 August at The Driver in London at sameAs, an evening of conversation and intellectual stimulation. I’ll be presenting with my co-conspirator, Kat Jungnickel, who’ll also be showcasing her Enquiry machine with Julian McHardy. The three of us will be joined by Natalie Downe of Lanyrd.
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[Radio 4] Fry's English Delight: Brevity
Monday July 18, 2011 @ 09:43 AM (UTC)On Fry’s English Delight on Radio 4 today, I describe to comedian Stephen Fry how much can be explained in something that seems impossibly brief. Introducing the Internet meme.
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[Radio 4] Life in a Day review on Front Row
Tuesday June 14, 2011 @ 05:01 PM (UTC)UPDATE: here’s the audio!
This evening at 7:15pm I’m on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row arts review programme, proffering my opinion on Kevin Macdonald’s latest film, Life in a Day. It was executive produced by Ridley Scott, and tells the story of the events from one nondescript day in the human life of the planet.
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[Public Talks] The Filter Bubble at the RSA
Monday June 13, 2011 @ 06:21 PM (UTC)I have the great pleasure of chairing an event with Eli Pariser, author of The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You at the RSA next Thursday. You can bet your bottom dollar I’ll be pressing him about the ways technology can (and cannot) promote serendipity. I’ll also be picking apart the technological determinism of the book’s main argument (hearkening back to the agenda of US legal scholar Cass Sunstein), and why he is opposed to the “Daily Me” that the web can offer, as popularised by MIT Media Lab and One Laptop Per Child founder Nicholas Negroponte.
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[Public Talks] Alone Together at the RSA
Tuesday June 07, 2011 @ 05:29 PM (UTC)Sherry Turkle’s keynote presentation at the RSA on Wednesday was a real treat for me; it was the first time we’d seen one another since I interviewed her for The Virtual Revolution in November 2009, and since she had published the book she had been working on.
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[BBC Radio 4] Infinite Monkey Cage: Six Degrees of Separation
Monday June 06, 2011 @ 01:54 PM (UTC)In one of the most terrifying experiences of my professional career, I danced my PhD (not literally, metaphorically, people) for Stephen Fry, Brian Cox, Robin Ince and Simon Singh last Monday night at the recording of Infinite Monkey Cage. I was invited to be one of the panel on the science-comedy radio show, and had the great pleasure of explaining why the subject of my research is a) interesting, b) rational and c) almost like real science (hear that, Prof Cox?).
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[PSA] Off the Twitter machine
Monday June 06, 2011 @ 01:38 PM (UTC)I’m following a piece of my own advice and am taking a break from Twitter. There are many reasons for this, none of which has to do with my relationship with the service, which I continue to dearly love.
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[Public Talks] Age of Entanglement: position statement
Friday June 03, 2011 @ 05:42 PM (UTC)Friday evening I sat on a panel with Professors Sherry Turkle and Nick Tyler (chaired by Prof John Naughton) at the British Library. The question we’ve been asked to consider is whether or not we are too intertwined with technology.
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[Public Talks] The Age of Enlightenment: Are We Too Intertwined with Technology?
Wednesday May 18, 2011 @ 11:19 AM (UTC)I will be on a panel with Prof Sherry Turkle from MIT (author of Alone Together, the third in her trilogy examining identity in the age of the internet) and Prof Nick Tyler from UCL at the British Library next Friday 3 June at 1830. Here’s the blurb:
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[The Today Programme] 5 Years of Twitter: here today, gone tomorrow?
Monday March 21, 2011 @ 11:57 AM (UTC)Twitter, the most popular microblogging platform on the Web, is five years old. But can it survive another five? I was invited onto Radio 4’s Today Programme with mydeco’s Brent Hoberman (co-founder of UK dotcom darling lastminute.com) to talk about its future.
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