Commentaries on the impacts of technology on culture and society: This is an unprecedented time of technological innovation and change, with broad impacts on how we live and experience the world and each other. Age of Robots covers the social and societal impacts of technology.
The pandemic has forced many to increasingly rely on machines. According to USC research, it’s also led people to like them a little more. People are not very nice to machines. The disdain goes beyond the slot machine that emptied your wallet, a dispenser that failed...
By Elizabeth Neil US President Donald Trump issued executive orders on August 6 banning United States transactions with Chinese technology companies Tencent and ByteDance, who own the multi-purpose app WeChat and the widely popular video sharing platform TikTok,...
A computer can guess more than 100,000,000,000 passwords per second. Still think yours is secure? Paul Haskell-Dowland, Edith Cowan University and Brianna O'Shea, Edith Cowan University Passwords have been used for thousands of years as a means of identifying...
The University of Queensland Contact magazine has done a story on our documentary Toward Singularity. Big thanks to Harriet Dempsey-Jones for the write up and Editor Michael Jones. [button...
Society and scholars continue to debate whether violent video games have a long-term impact on youth. This meta-analysis considered data from 28 long-term outcome studies with approximately 21 thousand participants. The long-term impact of violent game play on...
The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked a unique experiment in mass homeworking. It’s the first time since before the industrial revolution that most people are working in the same space that they live. While just 5% of the UK labour force worked from home in 2019, by April...
Dr Alexis Kirke has for the first time shown that a human musician can communicate directly with a quantum computer via teleportation Teleportation is most commonly the stuff of science fiction and, for many, would conjure up the immortal phrase “Beam me up Scotty”....
From HAL 9000 to Westworld’s Dolores: The pop culture robots that influenced smart voice assistants Justine Humphry and Chris Chesher Last year, nearly one third of Australian adults owned a smart speaker device allowing them to call on “Alexa” or “Siri”. Now, with...
Just in case you are not one of the almost 11 million people to view the above trailer in the last 4 days (or missed it screaming at you on your Apple TV homepage)... here it is! Apple TV+ has been working on Foundation (based on the Foundation series of books by...
A recent six-year study, the longest study ever done on video game addiction, found that about 90% of gamers do not play in a way that is harmful or causes negative long-term consequences. A significant minority, though, can become truly addicted to video games and as a result can suffer mentally, socially and behaviorally.
