About Me
I am kiwi philosopher living in the beautiful city of Adelaide South Australia.
I've been busy over the past almost thirty years exploring the ethical implications of technological change, and the ways in which genetic and cybernetic technologies may alter us. Recently I've been very busy writing about the coronavirus pandemic.
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Why you can’t reason with the mob
What can Australia learn from Serbia about vaccine hesitancy?
Confessions of a philosophical shit-stirrer
A response to the suggestion that anti-vaxxers must be stupid to reject COVID-19 vaccines proven to be safe. They make ingenious uses of the ideological resources of their real-world or online mobs.
Confessions of a philosophical shit-stirrer
What can Australia learn from Serbia about vaccine hesitancy?
Confessions of a philosophical shit-stirrer
A follow up to this piece on the vice of philosophical shit-stirring. And a bit of a mea culpa for past shit-stirring.
What can Australia learn from Serbia about vaccine hesitancy?
What can Australia learn from Serbia about vaccine hesitancy?
Never mind the naysayers — let’s start listening to the “silent majority” about vaccines
A piece written with Vojin Rakic from the University of Belgrade that compares the different drivers of vaccine hesitancy in Australia and Serbia.
Never mind the naysayers — let’s start listening to the “silent majority” about vaccines
Why this time is so rarely different: The danger of underestimating the Taliban and the coronavirus
Never mind the naysayers — let’s start listening to the “silent majority” about vaccines
A piece on the ABC that suggests we focus more on the knowledge that most of us have acquired about vaccines than on the angry minority who haven't been paying attention.
Why this time is so rarely different: The danger of underestimating the Taliban and the coronavirus
Why this time is so rarely different: The danger of underestimating the Taliban and the coronavirus
Why this time is so rarely different: The danger of underestimating the Taliban and the coronavirus
A piece on the ABC that explores a bias toward tech fixes for complex problems. This bias played a role in recent disappointments about the coronavirus and the Taliban.
The paradox of choice: How Australia’s vaccine rollout provides a warning for the future of the flu
Why this time is so rarely different: The danger of underestimating the Taliban and the coronavirus
Why this time is so rarely different: The danger of underestimating the Taliban and the coronavirus
Piece on the ABC in which I discuss the difficult choices about whether and how to vaccinate against COVID-19 that Australians confront. I offer a warning about the future of ‘flu vaccination.
The Inflection Pointillists
The Inflection Pointillists
The Inflection Pointillists
A piece in the Los Angeles Review of Books written with Stuart Whatley that challenges popular beliefs about exponential improvement as the solution to pretty much everything.
The Dream Economy
The Inflection Pointillists
The Inflection Pointillists
A piece in the Los Angeles Review of Books written with Stuart Whatley that deflates some of the hype that turns tech visionaries into multibillionaires.