by Andrew Maynard | Sep 10, 2018 | Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technology, Films from the Future, Future, Responsible Innovation, Technology Innovation
There’s something quite enticing about the idea of predicting how people will behave in a given situation. It’s what lies beneath personality profiling and theories of preferred team roles. But it also extends to trying to predict when people will behave badly, and taking steps to prevent this…
by Andrew Maynard | Sep 5, 2018 | Ethics, Films from the Future, Future, Responsible Innovation, Technology Innovation
In 2002, the birth of the first human clone was announced. Baby Eve was born on December 26, 2002, and weighed seven pounds. Or so it was claimed. The announcement attracted media attention from around the world, and spawned story after story of the birth. Since then, no proof has emerged that baby Eve was anything other than a publicity stunt. But the furor at the time demonstrated how contentious the very idea of creating living copies of people can be.
by Andrew Maynard | Aug 29, 2018 | Emerging Technology, Films from the Future, Future, Responsible Innovation, Synthetic Biology, Technology Innovation
I was a newly minted Ph.D. when I first saw Jurassic Park. It was June 1993, and my wife and I were beginning to enjoy our new-found freedom, after years of too much study and too little money. I must confess that we weren’t dinosaur geeks. But there was something about the hype surrounding the movie that hooked us. Plus, we fancied a night out.
by Andrew Maynard | Aug 23, 2018 | Films from the Future, Future, Responsible Innovation
I first saw Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 A Space Odyssey on a small black and white TV, tucked in a corner of my parents’ living room. It was January the first 1982, and I was sixteen years old…
by Andrew Maynard | Aug 21, 2018 | Artificial Intelligence, Films from the Future, Future, Responsible Innovation
Over the next several weeks, I’ll be posting short excerpts from Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies ahead of the book’s publication on November 15 — visit regularly to read the latest, and remember that you can...
by Andrew Maynard | Aug 20, 2018 | Artificial Intelligence, Films from the Future, Future, Responsible Innovation
I’m thrilled that my new book Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies (Mango Publishing) is now available! From the listing: Learn how movies reveal the future of technology Fans of The Science of Interstellar, The Second Machine Age,...