By the time you see the cracks…

By / Date: June 29th, 2023

Over the last few days I, like many others, have been drawn in to the analysis of ‘what went wrong’ with the Titan submersible, diving on the Titanic when it suffered a catastrophic implosion at depth, instantly killing all on board. My deepest sympathies are with their families after this terrible tragedy. Sidebar this for […]

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The Ghost in the Machine

By / Date: June 15th, 2023

[illustration courtesy of Dall.E (ChatGPT) in response to the prompt ‘Generate a futuristic image to illustrate a blog post on the possibility of machine sentience.’] In my formative years, I remember a movie that imprinted on me one view of what computers were – one that was at least 50 years ahead of its time. […]

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