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Launch: Our Data, Our Future

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I’m really excited to announce that New York based Robin Riback and I are launching a new short podcast called “Our Data, Our Future – A short podcast with big ideas”

It will be a 7 to 10-minute monthly discussion about how, where, and why we preserve our data: that is, our electronic stories, our identity, and our lives.

Episode #1 – data storage and its future – will be available this coming Tuesday, 14 October and will be available on both of our substacks.

If you like the sound of it, you can subscribe now (for free) on either of our substacks – nudgethefuture and/or robinriback – so that when this and upcoming episodes are broadcast, you’ll get notified by email right away.

Here’s a trailer for what you can expect.

Is the Future of Justice Free, Fair, and Flawless?

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I’m very pleased to have another article in the BSFA Focus magazine’s ‘Shape of Things to Come’.

With this one, I take the section on Police and Justice in “All Tomorrow’s Futures” and expand and extrapolate into some new ideas.

I cover quite a bit in the article, but to give you a flavour of the areas I was thinking about, here are some examples:

  • the tension between wanting every crime to be prosecuted and the desire for lower taxes
  • whether human bias or machine bias is better for justice (presuming bias will always be there)
  • can an automated system eradicate the disastrous effects of human ego in righting wrongful convictions
  • where and how is the inevitable use of AI best deployed.

I really enjoyed pondering and writing about this, especially using All Tomorrow’s Futures as a launch pad for ideas, and I hope it gives some food for thought around how we might work towards a free, fair and flawless justice system.