The British Library currently have John Milton's commonplace book on display. I found the experience of looking at it quite remarkable. ...

This isn't my idea. I had a great chat to Oleg in his garden yesterday, and amongst other things, he described the differentiated educat...

Listening to the Economy: The cybernetics of Risk This paper concerns a cybernetic approach to dealing with an economy in crisis. Cyberneti...

With the recent terrible events in Norway, it is difficult for formulate any utterance which goes beyond denunciation of the acts of an indi...

Many technologies that we get used to in our daily lives save us labour: washing machines, vacuum cleaners, cars, telephones, etc. Cynics mi...

I was very sad to discover that Professor Gary Boyd of Concordia University died in May. I met Gary at the 2010 American Cybernetics Socie...

One of the key features of Bowlby's attachment theory is the importance it places on 'proximity' (between mother and child, betw...