Science Advice & Government: One Voice or Many
Which scientific voices are heard in government? How one voice or many shapes information that is informing decision making? What structures and institutions have evolved over recent decades to try and make that process more open, more diverse and more robust?
In the second episode in our series o…
#19 Decolonise and Decenter STS: Reflections and Expectations | WeAreSTS
Scientific knowledge has evolved over the past few centuries in various political and socio-cultural contexts. There is seen to be a substantially disproportionate legacy of European thought in scientific education. How the fingerprints of colonialism continue to shape the way academic institutions…
#20 Becoming Britain’s Chief Scientific Advisor: Solly Zuckerman | WeAreSTS
Did you know that in March 1967, the British government bombed an oil tanker stranded on rocks off Cornwall? Dan Sharpe certainly didn’t when he began to dig into the life and career of the Britain’s first Chief Scientific Adviser, Lord Solly Zuckerman. He advised prime minister Harold Wilson durin…
Science and Innovation Policy for Hard Times
There is a new UK government department for science, innovation, and technology. Will the new standalone entity turn Britain into the science superpower that it hopes to become? Will the new department lift productivity growth during the hard times that the country is currently facing? This episode…
I.D. Cards: Show me who you are
A Jam Tomorrow special: Identity cards. What happens when principles come up against panic? When a high minded determination not to collect private info runs up against a society which depends on data? Ros Taylor charts the history of “show us your papers” from wartime security concerns to football…
Artificial Intelligence
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss artificial intelligence. Can machines think? It was a question posed by the mathematician and Bletchley Park code breaker Alan Turing and it is a question still being asked today. What is the difference between men and machines and what does it mean to be human? And …
The Afterlives of Cybernetics: Tracing the Information Revolution from the 1960s to Big Data - 17 November 2017
The lecture by Jon Agar and Jacob Ward (University College London) will be open to all free of charge. Further information, including an abstract, is available here.
Convenors
Andrew McKenzie-McHarg (University of Cambridge)
Poornima Paidipaty (University of Cambridge)
Egle Rindzeviciute (K…
The Afterlives of Cybernetics - 17 November 2017 - Tracing the Information Revolution from the 1960s to Big Data
Public Lecture
Jon Agar and Jacob Ward (University College London)
'Communications, control and cybernetics in post-war British systems: rail, post and telecoms'
Discussant: Matthew Gandy (University of Cambridge)
Convenors
Andrew McKenzie-McHarg (University of Cambridge)
Poornima Paidipaty …
Why don't we have ID cards in the UK?
For years there has been an argument, sometimes loud, sometimes subdued, on whether Britain needs an ID card system. One big reason given for wanting them is simply to know who is here legally. With illegal and irregular migration never far from the headlines these days and with President Macron, …
Cybernetics
Misha Glenny and guests discuss cybernetics – the field of study which gave us the prefix ‘cyber’ and helped lay the foundations for the information age. After the Second World War, cybernetics emerged as the study of communication, feedback, and control in both animals and machines. Cybernetics wa…
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