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About John Danaher
NBN Episodes hosted by John:
March 26, 2020
Life hackers track and analyze the food they eat, the hours they sleep, the money they spend, and how they're feeling on any given day. They share tip…
March 19, 2020
Übermensch
In this episode I talk Stefan Lorenz Sorgner. Stefan teaches philosophy at John Cabot University in Rome. He is director and co-founder of the Beyond …
March 12, 2020
Robot Rules
In his new book Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Jacob Turner explains why AI is unique, what legal and eth…
March 5, 2020
Turned On
The idea of the seductive sex robot is the stuff of myth, legend and science fiction. From the ancient Greeks to twenty-first century movies, robots i…
February 27, 2020
Robot Rights
We are in the midst of a robot invasion, as devices of different configurations and capabilities slowly but surely come to take up increasingly import…
February 20, 2020
Automating Inequality
The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years―because a new computer system interpr…
February 13, 2020
The Ethics of Cryonics
Cryonics―also known as cryopreservation or cryosuspension―is the preservation of legally dead individuals at ultra-low temperatures. Those who undergo…
February 6, 2020
Technology and the Virtues
The 21st century offers a dizzying array of new technological developments: robots smart enough to take white collar jobs, social media tools that man…
January 30, 2020
Friendship, Robots, and Social Media
Various emerging technologies, from social robotics to social media, appeal to our desire for social interactions, while avoiding some of the risks an…
January 23, 2020
Re-Engineering Humanity
Every day, new warnings emerge about artificial intelligence rebelling against us. All the while, a more immediate dilemma flies under the radar. Have…
January 16, 2020
The Ethics of Space Exploration
The Ethics of Space Exploration (Springer, 2016), edited by James S. J. Schwartz and Tony Milligan, aims to contribute significantly to the understand…
January 9, 2020
Robot Sex
Sexbots are coming. Given the pace of technological advances, it is inevitable that realistic robots specifically designed for people's sexual gratifi…
January 2, 2020
Adcreep
Advertising is everywhere. By some estimates, the average American is exposed to over 3,000 advertisements each day. Whether we realize it or not, "ad…
December 26, 2019
The Quantified Self in Precarity
Humans are accustomed to being tool bearers, but what happens when machines become tool bearers, calculating human labour via the use of big data and …
December 19, 2019
The Proactionary Imperative
Steve Fuller and Veronika Lipinska's The Proactionary Imperative: A Foundation for Transhumanism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) debates the concept of tra…
December 12, 2019
Rethinking Human Enhancement
In Rethinking Human Enhancement: Social Enhancement and Emergent Technologies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Laura Cabrera discusses three possible human…
December 5, 2019
The Quantified Self
With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains…