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What are the challenges and opportunities of urban artificial intelligence and robotics?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are the challenges and opportunities of urban artificial intelligence and robotics?

...technologies which underpin everyday life in our towns and cities. Indeed, cities of multiple intelligences which include both artificial and human ones have arrived...The recent AI Safety Summit and press coverage suggest we need to think carefully about these new urban technologies. On one hand, the benefits of these new automated technologies such as driverless cars...
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A socially engaged spiritual response to the Climate Crisis
Nature & Environment

A socially engaged spiritual response to the Climate Crisis

...Technology, Bangkok) in 2005–2006 to further develop my knowledge and skills to engage in sustainability. But I also got an opportunity to learn about alternative education and sustainable development at the Grassroot Leadership Training (GLT) from the Spirit in Education Movement (SEM), a Thai based NGO, where I could deeply connect with nature and realised how I could...
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Cyborgs and cybernetics
Science, Maths & Technology

Cyborgs and cybernetics

...technology and humanity. The interfaces that communicate between man and machine are developing rapidly and to Prof. Kevin Warwick at Reading University, cyborgs are a technological evolutionary step forward from humans. With increasingly intelligent robots and nano-technologies, can man keep up with the machines? This material forms part of The Open University course...
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The Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

The Moon

...Education, 2000, 2003. Copyright © David Rothery In this chapter you will learn: about the nearest planetary body to the Earth about the long record of impact cratering on its surface, and about the ancient eruptions that flooded many low-lying areas. PLANETARY FACTS Equatorial radius (km) 1738 Mass (relative to Earth) 0.0123 (7.35 × 1022 kg) Density (g/cm3) 3.34...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Music Printing
History & The Arts

Music Printing

...technological problems and solutions specific to the printing of music and shows how technology has transformed the way music scores are produced today. The five video tracks examine early music printing processes, 20th century photo lithography and the invention Sibelius, the music programme that changed everything. This material forms part of TA212 Technology of...
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Am I ready to be a distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be a distance learner?

...education, or you might not have had the chance to study at a higher level before. This free course, Am I ready to be a distance learner?, will help to boost your confidence. You'll explore useful skills so you can discover how ready you are to study and how to develop your study skills in six steps to become a successful distance learner...Distance learning can open up...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?
Science, Maths & Technology

Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?

...technology. Some of the technologies predicted are now a reality of sorts, but the world of Back to The Future II is not quite what we see around us today. The movie makers didn’t envisage the abundance of smartphones and other technologies that dominate our lives today. Transcript But Hollywood is always a little hit or miss when it comes to future predictions. So...
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Global English
History & The Arts

Global English

...technology (and indeed has helped accelerate both), the wider roots of English as a world language lie much further in the past. Some point to the first English colonies in Wales and Ireland in the 12th century, or to the late 17th century when English-speaking settlements were established in North America and the slave trade brought cheap labour from Africa. But it was...
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