This week at Blue Badge Style we we’re looking at what life could be like in the New Age of Disability (or NAD?). We uncovered how new technologies like 3D printing and robotics could combine to transform and in a way enlarge the world of the less able. Then we went a little bit further and looked at the possibility of a ‘Robopocalypse’ (we really did). Maybe we got a little carried away but we just like to think about the future.
Since we’ve been looking at robots so much, we thought that we should point out an excellent BBC radio programme, for anyone who enjoyed any of our articles on robots this week. It was on last week on Radio 4 and was called Something Understood: Artificial Soul.
It was a fantastic look into artificial intelligence, the progress being made in robotics and the very notion of what it means to be human and it’s still on iPlayer for one more day. John McCarthy asks, with the help of academics from the Informatics department at King’s College London, if there is a part of humanity – the soul – that can never be replicated in machines. There are some amazing discoveries in there that we won’t ruin now but we will say that it’s fantastic and well worth a listen (even if just for the superb archive material from when Deep Blue beat chess Grandmaster Gary Kasparov in 1997).
You can listen to the programme on iPlayer for one more day.
Please get in touch to tell us if you enjoyed our articles on the New Age of Disability or if you have anything to add to the debate. If things keep progressing as they are the New Age could be upon us soon and we could all go NAD!