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May 3, 2019 opinion / publications / society / technology

How much can we afford to forget, if we train machines to remember?

Without food we starve, without energy we huddle in the cold. And it is through widespread loss of memory that civilisations are at risk of falling into a looming dark age. (1400 words)

March 8, 2019 books / memoir / movies / opinion / publications

A return volley

Science fiction — at its best — is always about what it means to be human. (2100 words)

May 17, 2018 astronomy / history of science / long form / philosophy of science / physics / publications

Learning to see [Aeon, American Scientist]

One astronomer’s dimpled pie is another’s cratered moon. How can our mind’s eye learn to see the new and unexpected? (3900 words)

April 25, 2016 long form / physics / publications

A physics without time [Aeon]

From past to present, into the future: the flow of time is central to human experience. Why isn’t it central to physics? (3600 words)

December 23, 2015 astronomy / history of science / long form / publications / society

Sky Readers [Aeon]

For most of human history, the stars told us where we were in space and time. Have we forgotten how to look up? (3600 words)

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