Wibbitz and other AI

We are the product being sold

Our Minds can be hijacked

An article in the Guardian by Paul Lewis about the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia.
 

For the full article, please click on the link below:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopia

How our humanity is eroded at the workplace

Article in the Guardian by Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger about the origins of management theories from the beginning of the century that are turning us into robots in the workplace.



(click on the link below to read the full article:)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/25/robots-taken-over-work-jobs-economy

I am what I remember? - the memory wars

article in the Guardian by Holly Watts summarising both sides of the memory wars including interviews with Nicole Kluemper and Elizabeth Loftus
(for the full article please click on the link below:)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/23/inside-case-of-repressed-memory-nicole-kluemper

New Afrobeats with Verona Patterson

Class at dance-works - looks interesting!
http://danceworks.net/teachers/verona-patterson/

How to write screenplays using Microsoft word

Step-by-step instruction from this wikiHow
http://www.wikihow.com/Write-Screenplays-Using-Microsoft-Word#Using_Style_and_Formatting_sub

Under-representation of disabled and over 50s

Article in the Guardian by Graham Ruddick about  the most under-represented groups: disabled and over 50s.
The article is illustrated by a stereotypical wheelchair!
(please click on the link below)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/aug/23/disabled-people-and-over-50s-most-under-represented-groups-in-broadcasting?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Media+briefing+2016&utm_term=240912&subid=8253140&CMP=ema_546

Jon Snow: Grenfell and the social divide

Article in the Guardian by Graham Ruddick about how Jon Snow spoke out at the MacTaggart Lecture and warned that lack of diversity in the media and other institutions is damaging society.
Please click on link below to read full article:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/aug/23/jon-snow-grenfell-mactaggart-media-diversity

The big idea that defines our era

Article from the Guardian's the long read by Stephen Metcalf
to read the full article, please click on the link below:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/aug/18/neoliberalism-the-idea-that-changed-the-world