Anyone who has read Richard Morgan’s “Altered Carbon” or seen the TV series based on it will be familiar with the idea of the “cortical stack”, an electronic implant which…
Category: Technology
Software resilience and security - BCS view
BCS (the Chartered Institute for IT, formerly the British Computer Society) has recently answered a “Call for views on software resilience and security for businesses and organisations” from the Department…
Is it time to start worrying about Artificial General Intelligence?
Concerns about the risks associated with run-away artificial intelligence superseding human intelligent (“The Singularity”) have been around for many years, with scientists as eminent as Stephen Hawkins expressing alarm. At…
Cut+Paste at The Crick Institute
We have had Biotechnology as one of SAMI’s main global Drivers of Change for many years. The invention of the genome editing tool CRISPR/Cas-9, which won its inventors the Nobel…
Hype and rates of Technology Adoption
Technology advances at a remarkable rate, but even more dramatic claims are made for some innovations which never in the end deliver. Some are just a ridiculous idea in the…
Drivers of Change 2022 - the 4th Industrial Revolution
We identified the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” – the application of digital technologies and related advances – as our fourth Driver of Change. The Covid-19 pandemic led to the broader adoption…