Workshop summaries

Direct electrical/digital interfaces between human brains and machines are advancing rapidly while AI is suddenly infiltrating the process of human thinking at mass scale. Where are we headed? At our September meeting, we discussed a recent selection from the Best Science & Nature Writing about the cutting-edge technology of humans interacting with computers using only…

Does visiting a zoo ever give you a strange feeling—not just about our relationship with nature, but maybe even about your own life? What kind of science and ideas lie behind zoos, and could they tell us something about human existence and our future? This month we workshopped a draft treatment for a fictional story,…

With the long-awaited greenery of the Nordic summer finally upon us, it was the perfect time to consider the secret life of plants. They’re not what we think they are: the science is changing and the potential for plants to think, communicate, and engage in chemicals-weapons combat gave us plenty to ponder, while we, um,…