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Rob Killick, CEO of cScape, is so worried about the limp responses to the recession; he started a website that tries to develop good ideas about it through discussion. He presented his thoughts to The Brighton Salon.
“I want to focus on the political side of the recession and I realise that might seem a bit odd. Perhaps it is,” said Rob. An economic crisis at the same time as a political crisis is something outside of most people’s experience.
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Read more... [Britain After the Recession with Rob Killick]
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Reclaiming Childhood with Dr Helena Guldberg
Swimming in the fjords
What a lovely childhood Dr Guldberg had! Helena’s words painted idyllic scenes of swimming in the fjords in Norway, playing in the woods and developing her social skills beyond the control of interfering adults.
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Read more... [Reclaiming Childhood]
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Dr Kathleen Richardson is Departmental Research Associate at the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University. She has written on how humans relate to robots and was a visiting researcher at the Humanoid Robotics Lab, MIT, Boston. Dr. Blay Whitby is a lecturer at Sussex University and the author of several books including Artificial Intelligence: A beginner’s Guide, and he works on the ethics of robotics. A recent talk of his was called Do you want a robot lover?
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Read more... [Challenging relationships: Love, Companionship and Robots]
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The day The Brighton Salon met to discuss the financial crisis that has seen banks and markets collapse globally and recession set in, British political parties were arguing about fiddling with taxes after the chancellor’s pre-budget report.
TV journalists have been scraping the bottom of the metaphorical barrel of analogies while newspapers have splattered their coverage with increasingly lurid graphics (The Guardian’s colourful blobs take my award for making simple figures particularly uninformative).
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Read more... [The Crisis of Confidence and the Financial Collapse]
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