2021 January

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In some areas AI is now reaching human-like levels of performance, and one of those…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF It’s time to break free of computer screens, viva la revolution, viva AR!   Love…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the real world artists are constrained by lots of things, including the laws of…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We talk to other people all the time, virtual beings are increasingly just like those…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Control is an illusion, and historically the smartest species has always wiped out less capable…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Making movies in virtual reality, and using gaming engines to create characters and sets, is…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Housework is boring, robots are awesome, and soon you can bring that awesomeness home.  …

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Children love animals, and zoo’s help children bond and empathise with animals, but huge moral…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The real world doesn’t always have rules, so if we want to create AGI then…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Once you digitise something you can analyse it, share it, and run simulations that wouldn’t…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Hydrogen has more than ten times the energy density of lithium Ion batteries, zero emissions,…