Science in the City in partnership with the Griffith Review

Science in the City in partnership with Griffith Review

The New Disruptors

As the digital revolution keeps unleashing radical change on industries, economies, politics and institution – and on our lives.  What future will this disruption shape?  What upheavals are to come?  evolution is being driven by technological rather than biological forces: within a century, we may meet our first ‘non-biological offspring’. Is the brave new world of Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google and Uber one of decentralisation, anti-elitism and individual freedom – or surveillance, monopoly and control?

Griffith Review 64 contributors Ellen Broad, Mark Pesce and Elise Bohan speak with Ashley Hay.

 

Mark Pesce is a futurist, inventor, author, educator and podcaster. His podcast The Next Billion Seconds won Best Technical or Scientific Podcast at the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards and is a finalist in the 2019 awards. His books include The Playful World: How Technology is Transforming our Imaginations. He is an Honorary Associate in the University of Sydney’s Digital Cultures program.

 

Ellen Broad works on data sharing, open data and AI ethics projects for a range of Australian and international organisations and is Head of Technical Delivery, Consumer Data Standards for CSIRO’s Data61. A writer and commentator on data issues, she is the author of Made by Humans: The AI Condition (MUP 2018) which explores our role and responsibilities in automation.

 

Elise Bohan teaches and writes on Big History and transhumanism. She is a Research Associate at Edith Cowan University and has taught at Macquarie University, where she completed a PhD in these areas. She wrote the introduction to Big History (DK, 2016) and is writing the first book length history of transhumanist ideas, movements and technologies. 

 

Ashley Hay’s novels and essays have won numerous awards, including the Foundation of Australian Literary Studies’ Colin Roderick Award, the Peoples’ Choice in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, and the Bragg/UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing. She edited Best Australian Science Writing (2014) for NewSouth Books. Her latest novel is A Hundred Small Lessons. She is the editor of Griffith Review.

 

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