Stories
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Mark O’Connell’s prescription for writing
The Wellcome Book Prize shortlisted author of ‘To Be a Machine’ answers five questions on health, inspiration and storytelling.
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The life and death of Tamagotchi and the virtual pet
Discover how the 1990s craze for Tamagotchis became a flood of robotic and virtual pets, sending their owners on an emotional rollercoaster ride.
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Can isolation lead to manipulation?
Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.
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Artificial intelligence and the dream of eternal life
Until now, eternal life was the stuff of fiction, or in the unknowable realms of religion. But an artificial intelligence that ‘remembers’ the whole of an individual’s experience could be the way to life after death.
Catalogue
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Cybernetics / John F. Young.
Young, John Frederick.Date: [1969], ©1969- Books
Cybernetics and biology / by F.H. George.
George, F. H. (Frank Honywill), 1921-1997.Date: [1965], ©1965- Books
Cybernetics and the philosophy of mind / Kenneth M. Sayre.
Sayre, Kenneth M., 1928-2022Date: 1976- Books
Cybernetics / edited by C.R. Evans and A.D.J. Robertson.
Date: [1968]- Books
Cybernetics, or, Control and communication in the animal and the machine / Norbert Wiener.
Wiener, Norbert, 1894-1964.Date: [1948]