Vic Grout

@vicgrout.bsky.social

Technology Ethics Professor https://academics.arucad.edu.tr/academic/vic-grout/; Futurist/Futurologist; Author: 'Conscious' http://vicgrout.net/the-book; Socialist; WokeAF; Vegan; Husband; Dad; Grandad.

100 experts, chaired by an eminent professor with personal experience, spend months researching a report saying young people today have it tough. Fortunately, Carol (Living in Spain: Union Jack profile), Terry (motor bike) & Dave (holding a fish) will be along in a moment to tell them they’re wrong.

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A few years ago, the most outrageous dystopian fiction imaginable couldn’t have credibly suggested sane people needing to say, ‘I stand with the RNLI.’ But here we are.

It’s wild how your head goes walkabout as you get older. Yes, I do indeed remember locking the door; quite vividly, as it happens. But that could have been today, yesterday or last week. It could have been our house, my university digs or that Lego aircraft hangar in Rivendell I dreamt about!

There are many virtues of a good friend: empathy, trust, loyalty, respect, etc. are all admirable. But in hot weather, an often overlooked quality is being more attractive to biting insects than you are.

It’s wild how your head goes walkabout as you get older. Yes, I do remember locking the door; quite vividly, in fact. But that could have been today, yesterday or last week. It could have been our house, my university digs or that Lego aircraft hangar in Rivendell I dreamt about!

Interesting that, so far as I’m aware, without this being discussed, we seem to have implicitly authorised tech companies to take these ‘risks’ on our behalf?

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I can’t conceive of any problem to which the solution might be Wes Streeting – with the possible exception of the question ‘Who would it be most fun to strap to a trolley in the corridor of an underfunded NHS hospital for three days?’

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

This is, of course, stupid. Technology was supposed to have us work less - not more. But, as I've said over and over, it's not AI and what it can do we should fear, but who owns it and what they'll do with it.

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