vulnerability
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Sleeper Project
Please pardon the pun – well, really, a double pun, though that may not be obvious just yet. Read on to see what I mean. How did I come to be writing a paper about, of all things, sleep? It’s the convergence of threads which have been running through my research, some of them stretching… Continue reading
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Greeting
Recent posts have turned my attention back to the role in ethical experience of recognition between people, and from this has emerged a new theme I’d like to explore: How we greet one another. The possible importance of greeting came out in the story of the toddler in the farmers market: “I’m here! I’m here!”… Continue reading
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Death By Robot
“Death by robot is an undignified death, Peter Asaro, an affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, said in a speech in May at a United Nations conference on conventional weapons in Geneva. A machine ‘is not capable of considering the value of those human lives’ that it is… Continue reading
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Self-Driving Cars: A View from the Sidewalk
I have not been following the hype over self-driving cars closely enough to tell whether it’s a passing fad or something more enduring. As is often the case with emerging technologies that excite people’s imaginations, many claims for the benefits of self-driving cars come across as exaggerated, almost utopian. In any case, benefits are cast… Continue reading