There’s two answers – the big scary answer and the hopeful answer.
The big scary answer is that yes, huge swathes of jobs are going to be lost to machines over the next 25 years. There’s... Читать далее
If you go back to the 1960s, if you wanted to make a machine do anything, you had to go to an air conditioned room, learn the machine’s language and encode it in very specific, very... Читать далее
I don’t have a problem with artefacts and tools that we create in our world for useful purposes. It is when you personify and anthropomorphise artefacts that you can end up dehumanising... Читать далее
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, London School of Economics. Author of "The Transnational Capitalist Class" (2001) and "The Icon Project: Architecture, Cities, and Capitalist Globalization" (2017).
What are iconic architects doing to build greener and more sustainable cities?
As I argue in my book The Icon Project, today, the culture-ideology of consumerism seems to rule supreme all over the world with disastrous ecological consequences.
Many architects are... Читать далее