Martin Lee Chu-ming, affectionately known as the “grandfather of Hong Kong democracy”. Mick Tsikas/AAP John Keane, University of Sydney This exclusive interview with Martin Lee took place in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai district last weekend. Martin Lee Chu-ming is affectionately known as the “grandfather...
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Read More* Remarks on the future of artificial intelligence and robots first presented as a public lecture at the School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University, Beijing, January 2019. Preface This essay on the emerging politics of artificial intelligence and robotics is...
Read MoreAn interview with Nathan Letts, the Australian Film Television and Radio School, Canberrra, September 5, 2019 [audio mp3="http://www.johnkeane.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/John-Keane-HK-Interview.mp3"][/audio]...
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Speaker: Professor John Keane, Melbourne, 27 August 2019 Reports of the death of democracy may be greatly exaggerated. However, there is mounting evidence that many people are losing trust in our democratic institutions. Today people in countries we regard as non-democratic...
Read More18 August 2019 Hong Kong: Hungary 1956 with Chinese Characteristics? ABC interview (Sydney) ...
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Originally published in: Letras Libres (Mexico City), 244 (April 2019) A pesar de que la inteligencia artificial y la robótica se encuentran en una fase temprana, sus efectos son amplios y su presencia en la vida cotidiana es cada vez mayor....
Read MoreOriginally published in: Lettre International (Berlin) Summer 2019 POTENTIALE DES WANDELS Unsere Welt erlebt gerade eine zweite Revolution des Maschinenzeitalters, einen ungleich globaleren und tiefgreifenderen Wandel, ausgelöst durch den Einsatz von künstlicher Intelligenz und „smarten“ Robotern in immer mehr Bereichen des Alltagslebens....
Read MoreOriginally published in Focus 85 (Johannesburg), June 2019 We live in Shakespearean times marked by a strange but striking fact: despite mounting evidence of waning American global power and the birth of a strident global China, few people dare openly use...
Read MoreOriginally published in Taiwan Journal of Democracy, volume 15, no. 1 (July 2019), pp. 35-58 Abstract The unprecedented greening of democracy during the past half-century runs far beyond spreading public talk of sustainability and climate justice and is more consequential than disputes...
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