Citizen Assemblies: a TEDx talk
Do you trust your politicians? The people who represent you, and take decisions on your behalf about vital things, like health, education, national defence, and importantly where your taxes are spent...
View ArticleAbandoning the metropolis: space colonisation as the new imperative
The year 2019 began with news of the most distant object ever visited by a spaceship and the landing of a probe on the far side of the Moon. On New Year’s Day[1] New Horizons, a robotic spaceship...
View ArticleSpace republics: how to democratise space exploration and accelerate...
I have vivid memories from the hot July night of 1969 when the Eagle landed on the Moon. I was nearly five then. I was woken up[1] and hurried by my parents, still dressed in my pyjamas, to our...
View ArticleDeepfakes
This is a short, fictional piece that I wrote for La Revista de la Universidad de Mexico, as part of their “Diario de la pandemia” series. To read the Spanish version please follow this link. While we...
View ArticleLaunching Cyber Republic on October 7
Come to join the LSE Alumni Association London (LSEAAL) and me, George Zarkadakis, to present and discuss my new book “Cyber Republic: reinventing democracy in the age of intelligent machines”. We will...
View ArticleThe future of democracy podcast
Many thanks to Alan Boyle, editor at Cosmic Log, and scifi author Dominica Phetteplace for interview and podcast on “Cyber Republic” and politics of the future. Listen to the podcast here:...
View ArticleLaunching Cyber Republic at the LSE
Video of my conversation with Lichelle Wolmarans about Cyber Republic, organized by the LSE Alumni on October 27, 2020.
View ArticleReinventing liberal democracy in the age of intelligent machines: a talk
Transcript of my talk at Conway Hall Ethical Society of London, and London Futurists. Let me start with the word “democracy”. If you think that you are citizens living in a democracy you are mistaken....
View ArticleCyber Republic and London Futurists
Presenting and discussing Cyber Republic with David Wood and the London Futurists.
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The risks of privatising space
Half a century after humans left footprints on the Moon space exploration, and exploitation, have entered a new era. Private space companies are developing new launch vehicles and spacecrafts, there...
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