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Living in a Cyber-Enabled World

Professor Martyn Thomas CBE and Professor Harold Thimbleby · Gresham College

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About

Computers and software have transformed the world in 67 years and the pace of change is still accelerating. The achievements have been extraordinary: we have the Web, Google and GPS - but we also have viruses, spam and cybercrime. What can we learn from past triumphs and disasters to help us decide about Big Data, driverless cars, artificial intelligence and life in silico? Might the future be built on sand, metaphorically as well as literally?

Lectures

  1. Should We Trust Computers? 2015-10-20 · YouTube
  2. A Very Brief History of Computing, 1948-2015 2016-01-12 · YouTube
  3. How Can Software Be So Hard? 2016-02-09 · YouTube
  4. Computers, People and the Real World 2016-04-05 · YouTube
  5. Cybersecurity 2016-05-03 · YouTube
  6. Big Data: The Broken Promise of Anonymisation 2016-06-14 · YouTube
  7. Are you the Customer or the Product? 2016-10-18 · YouTube
  8. Safety-Critical Systems 2017-01-10 · YouTube
  9. The Dilemmas of Privacy and Surveillance 2017-02-07 · YouTube
  10. What Really Happened in Y2K? 2017-04-04 · YouTube
  11. Making Software 'Correct by Construction' 2017-05-02 · YouTube
  12. Artificial Intelligence 2017-06-13 · YouTube
  13. Is Society Ready For Driverless Cars? 2017-10-24 · YouTube
  14. Will Bitcoin and the Block Chain Change the Way we Live and Work? 2018-01-09 · YouTube
  15. Computer Bugs in Hospitals: A New Killer 2018-02-06 · YouTube
  16. Should We Vote Online? 2018-02-13 · YouTube
  17. The Internet of Things 2018-03-20 · YouTube
  18. Computers and Warfare 2018-05-29 · YouTube
  19. Computers and the Future 2018-06-12 · YouTube

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Taught by
Professor Martyn Thomas CBE, Professor Harold Thimbleby
Year
2015
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Mathematics, Medicine and health, Computer science, Economics, Business and management, Society and politics, History
Source
Gresham College
Licence
Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
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