October 2019 — Carrington Malin

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October 31, 2019
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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and Lars Buttler, chief executive of San Francisco-based The AI Foundation, introduced a new concept of ‘personal media’, enabled by artificial intelligence at last week’s One Young World Summit in London. The company is developing technology to allow anyone to create an artificial version of themselves to represent their interests anytime, anywhere. These personal avatars will look, sound and act like their creators.

According to the Stone and Buttler, just as the world moved from the mass media era to the social media era, it will now begin to move into the age of ‘personal media’.

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October 24, 2019
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One of the most memorable lines from sci-fi comedy The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is the introduction to its tea-drinking, central protagonist Arthur Dent. The original radio script of Douglas Adams says of Dent: “He no more knows his destiny than a tea leaf knows the history of the East India Company.”

Tea was a recurring theme in Adams’ work, not least of all because it provided a point of contrast. What could be more far removed from stories of space travel, robots and artificial intelligence than the humble tea leaves?

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