Paul Miller

I did a talk last night about Better Humans? at the Science Cafe in Swansea which was good fun. I’ve done a few of these now – the one in Nottingham went on to form the story at the beginning of the book. They’re such a valuable way of talking about science and technology and [...]

Part of the Tomorrow’s People conference was a series of set-piece lectures by John Harris, professor of philosophy at Manchester University. In his final talk he started with a quote from a philosopher I really respect – Douglas Adams. He used Douglas’s story of Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged who became immortal by accident: “To begin [...]