Omnivorist

 At the start of the pandemic the UK government made a lot of the claim that it was following the science  in determining its course of acti...

Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti is a book I have owned for longer than I can remember. I have never read it but, for some reason, it has a...

I have recently taken to leafing through the documentation accompanying the recent UK/EU trade deal. An odd choice of bedtime reading you mi...

In part 1 of this exploration  I introduced a fantastical story by the Polish writer Stanislaw Lem. It describes how an inventor called Trur...

So I have been trying to persuade GPT-3 (an artificial intelligence) to write poetry. Sorry about the wait, by the way, but it comes with th...

I have been interacting with an advanced natural language system called GPT-3 and decided I would invite it to write poetry. You can read Pa...

You may have heard about GPT-3, an artificial intelligence (AI) system developed by the San Francisco based company, OpenAI.   Technically s...

It might have been the sound of wind in the treetops that recently evoked this vivid recollection of the seaside. Every time I lie, face-dow...

As every fool knows, if you want to write a letter to the Queen, you start it with May it please Your Majesty And on the envelope, the first...

Have we forgotten how to imagine the future - or at least one that we would be happy to live in?  I have been thinking about this in connect...