Tick tock….around the clock

From complicated pocket watches to iconic clocks to decorative wrist watches… there’s a fascinating world behind the multi-billion-dollar timepiece industry.

11.2013 | ngrid Wood

Animals will be animals

Intro: Camera close-ups of nature and animal life tell us more than we may have expected, but now that we are hooked, we may learn as much good as there seems to be bad.

10.2023 | Peter Dearlove

Artificial intelligence vs the world.

‘Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov’ was a clashing of six game chess matches between World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov and IBM supercomputer Deep Blue

10.2023 | Josh Gordon

How Gaming Conquered the World

For many, the 70s marked the beginnings of the true modern phenomenon that is broadcast television. In 1976 South Africans gathered around these boxy units with fiddly buttons and bunny ear aerials waiting to be amazed, and they would not be disappointed.

08.2023 | Alistair Duff

NFTs: the future of art?

The NFT scene is booming, awash with the crypto cash of giddy evangelists including anyone from Jack Dorsey to Paris Hilton. Nowhere is its apparently transformative potential more vigorously targeted than the art world.

04.2023 | Jack Calland

Hackers and Hacking

Why is something so apparently mindless and nasty now rampant? Are hackers just thieves looking for an open window? What is to be done to solve the biggest threat to our sophisticated existence?

04.2023 | Peter Dearlove

New research shines a light on The future of flight technology - and the future of flight technology or Flight of the Butterfly

The delicately beautiful butterfly finds itself at the centre of new research which reveals a secret hiding in plain sight that could influence the future of flying technology.

02.2023 | Adrian Ephraim

Populism: a human face of technological progress

Populism became one of the most widely used political terms in 2016 after Donald Trump was elected to the White House and the UK electorate voted ‘GO’ in the Brexit referendum.

10.2022 | Jon Stilwell

The weird world of quantum computers

The magician gazed out at his audience. “It’s a cold night,” he said. “Does anyone have a pair of gloves I can borrow?”

01.2021 | Barry Dwolatzky

Reward hacking: Moving beyond goal-driven behavior

At the risk of significantly over-simplifying the field, software development is achieved by articulating a certain goal or objective and mapping out a logical, algorithmically-based method of getting there.

11.2020 | Barry Morisse

We date like we shop

As much as this is such a tired cliché, there is some truth to the widespread millennial observation that dating in this generation is harder and more complicated than it used to be.

09.2020 | Rebone Masemola

Will machines ever become conscious?

The nature of consciousness is something that has been debated for centuries by philosophers, neuroscientists, ethicists, biologists and the like, with very little progress having been made.

06.2020 | Barry Morisse

One size fits all - or does it?

Marketers tend to make sweeping statements about entire generations. Is it dangerous to create a ‘one size fits all’ scenario when talking about any group in particular?

05.2020 | Denise Slabbert

AI Series: The impact of artificial intelligence on our work identity

The rise of advanced artificial intelligence is real and lurks on the horizon, requiring a significant shift in the way we view ourselves and our place in society.

01.2018 | Barry Morisse

The ethical sources of terrorist power: Understanding asymmetric war

The world wars of the twentieth century shared certain key features that are conspicuously absent from a class of contemporary war often referred to as asymmetric war.

07.2017 | Mervyn Frost

Science fiction becomes science fact

When one considers the popularity of shows such as Black Mirror it is clear that there is still very much of an audience for science fiction.

12.2018 | Alistair Duff

Can machines make ethical choices?

It seems uncontroversial to suggest that the sole reason the human race has survived everything thrown at it and got to where it is today is because we have the ability to augment our ‘natural’ selves with tools and technologies.

01.2018 | Barry Morisse