# Living in a Cyber-Enabled World

- 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](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/living-cyber-enabled-world)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-living-cyber-enabled-world/29e935955a26) (YouTube)
2. [A Very Brief History of Computing, 1948-2015](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-living-cyber-enabled-world/4f2ef853d6cd) (YouTube)
3. [How Can Software Be So Hard?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-living-cyber-enabled-world/d1d57c0e55f9) (YouTube)
4. [Computers, People and the Real World](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-living-cyber-enabled-world/5cbb4ff98ff4) (YouTube)
5. [Cybersecurity](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-living-cyber-enabled-world/ddf06798180f) (YouTube)
6. [Big Data: The Broken Promise of Anonymisation](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-living-cyber-enabled-world/079ea6a2eddb) (YouTube)
7. [Are you the Customer or the Product?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-living-cyber-enabled-world/7350290d7175) (YouTube)
8. [Safety-Critical Systems](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-living-cyber-enabled-world/d13e91b3deb9) (YouTube)
9. [The Dilemmas of Privacy and Surveillance](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-living-cyber-enabled-world/6a161cb3fbe8) (YouTube)
10. [What Really Happened in Y2K?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-living-cyber-enabled-world/faa1cfb94518) (YouTube)
11. [Making Software 'Correct by Construction'](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-living-cyber-enabled-world/fec925727ebe) (YouTube)
12. [Artificial Intelligence](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-living-cyber-enabled-world/2ca091dbe3b3) (YouTube)
13. [Is Society Ready For Driverless Cars?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-living-cyber-enabled-world/cf2ef49b18ac) (YouTube)
14. [Will Bitcoin and the Block Chain Change the Way we Live and Work?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-living-cyber-enabled-world/c982b5746071) (YouTube)
15. [Computer Bugs in Hospitals: A New Killer](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-living-cyber-enabled-world/538f42f1ed98) (YouTube)
16. [Should We Vote Online?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-living-cyber-enabled-world/91dd9607b2a4) (YouTube)
17. [The Internet of Things](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-living-cyber-enabled-world/3184985b5de8) (YouTube)
18. [Computers and Warfare](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-living-cyber-enabled-world/e0ea12a0481f) (YouTube)
19. [Computers and the Future](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-living-cyber-enabled-world/421dccaa2ce8) (YouTube)