One of the big takeaways from me from this year’s IASPM Conference, the biggest meeting of the top academics in popular music studies, was that Spotify sucks. The really interesting thing about Spotify, is that almost everyone who uses it seems to dislike it in some way. I’ve seen numerous complaints about their renumeration to […]
It’s been a couple of years now since AI really took off, with ChatGPT becoming this widespread, easily available tool available for free* (of course, with ourselves being the product) for people to use. Although early reactions to AI were – and continue to be – mixed, I also find it hard not to believe […]
I watched all of Foundation on Apple TV+ recently, after reading the first 5 books years ago. Since then, I’ve been meaning to read some more Asimov, starting with the Robot series. Asimov was the first to coin the term “robotics”, by exploring the scientific principles that might underpin futuristic robots. Although the idea of […]