The Voice to parliament: Is the No campaign to blame for the Voice's demise?
The Yes campaign has strayed from what it was about and has been replaced with nonsense arguments by ideologues, according to some readers.
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The Yes campaign has strayed from what it was about and has been replaced with nonsense arguments by ideologues, according to some readers.
As we tread the thin line between progress and ethical responsibility, King's urgent appeal is for critical reflection on the unchecked march of technology – a timely reminder of the need to retain our intrinsic human characteristics amid relentless digital advancement. By Andrew Hamilton
Thus, once-towering philosophers of technology – figures like Lewis Mumford, who was already warning in the 1950s that unrestricted technological expansion threatened the durability of both the human and the natural worlds, and Neil Postman, who in the 1980s described modern society as a “technopoly” in which human behaviour is thoroughly governed and regulated by machines - hardly receive any attention at all.
A new book argues our philosophical and intellectual responses to technology have not kept pace with events.