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Researching, writing & innovating #TrustInTech #TechForGood #equality #sustainability #emergingtech #SDGs #futures #AI #digital #MSSL #UCL @TechnoForeSight

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Dr Stephen Harwood #SDG #DEI #Tech4Good #AI🇺🇦
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Am loading research working papers onto @ResearchGate Anyone interested in #BusinessStrategy ? This paper from 2010 reflects upon #strategy #theories & offers a novel approach to making sense of #strategic issues using #VSM & #Cybernetics @ResearchGate :
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#Education is not confined to formal spaces such as #schools / #universities , but is found in #communities within #makerspaces , legitimised by the work of John Dewey & offering opprtunities for #innovovation #digitaltransformation #STEAM #STEM #digital
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Am loading research working papers onto @ResearchGate Is anyone interested in the academic use of the word #Performativity ? This paper from 2012 reflects upon its different meanings, yep it means different things!!! @ResearchGate : #business #performance
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What are the issues we should be concerned about with #Autonomous #Technological #Systems ? I explore this by examining Autonomous Weapon Systems I propose three pillars which are conceptually grounded in #Cybersystemics #EmergingTech #digitaltansformation
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Visited #Tate Modern, #London , today & came across wonderful exhibit: Babel 2001 by Cildo Meireles A tower of #analogue #radios , which is what you are hearing, that illustrates the challenge of 'being heard' in all the noise & the potential for misinformation Lessons?
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On 25th January we celebrate the great bard #RobertBurns Is his 'red rose' the greatest #love song of all time? I dedicate it to... she knows who she is ❤️ #music #lovesong #poetry #ClassicalMusic #Burns #RabbieBurns
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Wonderful news & very honoured to be named alongside so many amazing people in this list of the 50 Top Global  #Digital   #Influencers to follow in 2024 THANK YOU @pierrepinna & @ipfconline1 🙏🙏🙏 #EmergingTech #DigitalTransformation #security #trustintech
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Everyone has an opinion but does it determine what happens? How much of the rhetoric is just scaremongering? Is there need for theoretical reasoning about #tech #futures ? #Robot takeover? Not quite. Here’s what #AI doomsday would look like #futures
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I explain how #tech will evolve & its impact upon humanity in my paper with @sallyeaves : Conceptualising technology, its development and future: The six genres of technology. @tomlamont adds to this with this interesting insight: ‘Humanity’s remaining timeline? It looks more
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One of the challenges of writing is that we loose track of what we have written, especially if we are doing more than commentating and instead are offering new ways of thinking and framing issues. As I start work on another series of blogs, I thought it would be useful to reflect
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#SAP | SAP #Data Unleashed
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Are there #ethical or #legal issues about the use of copyrighted #data to train #AI tools? What questions does this open up? ‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like #ChatGPT without copyrighted material, #OpenAI says via @guardian #Tech4All
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Too often we miss the essence of what #technology is My recent research in area of #autonomous #tech has focused upon #weapons Imagine #terminator being real? It with no pleasure I share latest article as it suggests we need to be more deeply engaged with way #tech can be used,
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Delighted to be giving this talk thanks to @ucl Cybersystemics: what is it and why it is a useful new way to think about complex problems? #EmergingTech #digitaltansformation #security #trustintech #tech4good #emergintech #AI #ML #cybersystemics #SDGs
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In what do we trust? The factory system of publishing academic papers reveals the challenges of the 'publish or perish' ethos ‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point #EmergingTech
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One step closer to becoming a #cyborg What are the #ethical issues? Would you have a #brain implant? What is #ElonMusk ’s #Neuralink brain chip, now being tested on #humans ? via @AJEnglish #EmergingTech #DigitalTransformation #security #trustintech
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A NEW HUMAN SPECIES: Homo Sapien Sapien evolves into Homo Sapien Smartphonien #evolution #digitaltech #technology
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Is anyone interested in an MSc in the UCL Dept. of #Space and #Climate #Physics ? #MSSL is a world-leading space #science #laboratory , developing cutting-edge space research and space #technology for over 50 years. There is an @MSSLSpaceLab Graduate Virtual Open Event on Thu 18
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Want to be taught by people at the forefront of #space #research who are building & operating cutting edge hardware for multinational #SpaceMissions ? Join the @MSSLSpaceLab Graduate Virtual Open Event on Thu 18 Jan & discover opportunities. Register here:
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Is this true? Is this ethical? via @ConversationEDU Do you produce academic content? Do you want it to be used by #Microsoft to train #AI ? I don't want my work used This exploits the academic need to publish What right has @InformaPLC &
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The #history of #art is fascinating I suggest that it can reveal a lot about #technology & how we engage with it, from bringing it into being ( #innovation ) to it's use ( #implementation ) & ????? #EmergingTech #digitaltansformation #security #trustintech #tech4good #emergintech
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Should the creativity of content creators be allowed to be captured through the use of their work to train #AI ? The #NewYorkTimes ' #AI #copyright #lawsuit shows that forgiveness might not be better than permission via @ConversationUK #EmergingTech
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#eWaste is growing annually & is nearly double what it was in 2010 according to The Global E-waste Monitor 2024 A good overview of how harmful this is & what can be done is provided by @ITUBDTDirector The world generated 62 million tonnes of electronic waste in just one year and
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I booked myself into a hotel near #Paddington Station, #London . When I arrived I discovered that it was the birth place of #AlanTuring - what a coincidence & after a recent visit to #Bletchley Park!!!! #EmergingTech #digitaltansformation #security #trustintech #tech4good
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This is my reply to my previous article about a #sustainable #future , where I predict human extinction, but 'All is well - Planet Earth is Safe', it has already survived 5 mass extinctions In this article I suggest there is hope - but it's all about people & their values.
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This must be one of the most enjoyable academic conferences ever & on #tech Always such a positive experience I used to go until #Covid hit, but aim to join in 2024 Recommend to anyone who wants to explore research ideas in a welcoming & receptive community Submission deadline
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One of the big challenges facing #HigherEducation is student use of #AI for all aspects of their #learning #experience . #Research is desperately needed to understand this. I ask that if you are an #academic , can you please contribute to this study by #UCL colleagues MANY MANY
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Are you a university academic? Do you trust students to use #GenerativeAI responsibly? Help us with this research on #trust in AI in #HigherEd by completing this survey🙏 @IOE_London @UCL_teaching @AdvanceHE @timeshighered @AcademicChatter @drsharwood
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@EarthDay
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Alarming new research finds #microplastics are linked to elevated risks of autoimmune disorders, cancer, heart disease, & more. Decades of silence demands action⏰ Take 3 simple action to #EndPlastics this #EarthDay : #PlanetvsPlastics
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The sun has a lot of activity Does anyone understand how this activity impacts Planet Earth? Video of sun’s surface shows solar rain, eruptions and coronal moss #space #tech4good #AI #ML #cybersystemics #SDGs #Sustainability #tech #Innovation #hygiene
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A question: If it is claimed that #SustainableDevelopment is full of paradoxes - what are they? For example, is to make #profit , cutting costs, as a priority counter to #sustainable practices as a priority? What are the contradictions? Am curious THANKS in anticipation of
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Anyone interested in #cybersystemics ? An International conference will bring leading proponents together in #Oxford (11-13 Sept' 24) #WOSC2024 #SDGs #Sustainability #tech #Innovation #systemsthinking #artificialintelligence #IT #systems @enilev
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'Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right' Dumbledore'; J.K. Rowling
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Delighted to be giving this talk thanks to @UCLEvents Cybersystemics: what is it and why it is a useful new way to think about complex problems? #EmergingTech #digitaltansformation #security #trustintech #tech4good #emergintech #AI #ML #cybersystemics #SDGs #Sustainability #tech
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Don't forget to sign up for an introductory lecture on Cybersystemics with the fantastic @drsharwood on 21 November, 1pm-2pm! Sign up here:
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Have managed to view some amazing #space #tech here in #Washington Thank you #Smithsonian #Museums Am curious as to next leap & the degree of it being 'human-off-the-loop' #disruption #autonomous #emergintech #digitaltansformation #AI #ML #autonomousaircraft #spacetech
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#Art as form of #Technology goes back at least 51k years, but Homo sapiens have been around ~195k years From slow emergence, how fast #tech is now outpacing us! #AI is already painting images of humans😂 via @BBCPallab #DigitalTransformation
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Stumbled across this headline: Space Tourists Learn Harsh Reality of #Space Station Bathroom How often do we overlook the everyday technologies which we take for granted? But when they don't work? ooops #SpaceShip #ISS #EmergingTech #digitaltansformation
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Do you teach #Research #methods ? How easy is it to find the research question? The latest issue of #Systemic #Practice and #Action #Research is out which includes my paper about handling #complex #problems which am delighted to share Is open access so anyone can download Thank
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