The new machine age revolution: advice for humans [Chinese translation]
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The new machine age revolution: advice for humans
* 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...
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2019
‘More Thoughts on Hong Kong’, an interview with Nathan Letts, the Australian Film Television and Radio School
An 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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John Keane
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Video | Is Democracy Dying? – Speech to the Australian Fabians (Melbourne, August 27 2019)
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...
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Hong Kong: Hungary 1956 with Chinese Characteristics? ABC interview (Sydney) 18 August 2019
18 August 2019 Hong Kong: Hungary 1956 with Chinese Characteristics? ABC interview (Sydney) ...
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2019
Tenemos que hablar de robots (We Have to Talk About Robots, in Spanish)
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....
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June
2019
Roboter Ante Portas: Die zweite Revolution des Maschinenzeitalters – Tips fur Menschenkinder (The Second Machine Age Revolution – Tips for Human Children, published in German)
Originally 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....
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June
2019
The New Chinese Empire
Originally 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...
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June
2019
The Age of Monitory Democracy and the Greening of Politics
Originally 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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