The residents of Garrett Island off the coast of Massachusetts are part of a visionary experiment and a grand PR exercise, as they have all give up conventional cars in favour of a fleet of driverless vehicles called Arrivals, in Linwood Barclay’s international bestselling crime thriller,  Look Both Ways with characterization, plot and the killer twist,  a social comedy, as new technology of self-driving cars brings unease. Are they safe without a human at the wheel. Everything was fine until the CEO of a rival manufacturer, victim of cut throat corporate shenanigans that bankrupted him, introduces software into the Arrivals’ … Continue reading AI and Technology gone Astray

From fake news to conspiracy theories , from pandemics to politics, misinformation may be the defining problem of our era.  Like a virus, misinformation infects our minds -altering our beliefs and replicating at astonishing rates. Once the virus takes hold, our primary strategies of fact-checking and debunking are an insufficient cure. There are plenty of people trying to fool us these days and plenty of people happy to be fooled. Professor of psychology at Cambridge, Sander van der Linden, has been studying why are we susceptible to misinformation for years, and promises to build immunity to misinformation. Linden describes how … Continue reading Misinformation infects our minds -altering our beliefs