Specifically, the panel discuss how advances in neurotechnology - Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs) - are changing the way we think about urban infrastructures and human-technology relations in the city.
They discuss:
- How can we understand the complex and continuously changing relationship between cities and technology over the last few decades?
- What and where are the new frontiers of urban technology in light of neuro-technological advances, such as Brain Computer Interfaces?
- What are the legal and ethical implications for cities and residents of neurotechnological urbanism, and can science fiction prepare us for what’s to come?
Guests:
is Co Director of The Sydney Institute of Criminology and an Academic Fellow at the University of Sydney Law School. His first coedited book is Free Will and the Law: New Perspectives (Routledge, 2019) and his second is Neurointerventions and the Law: Regulating Human Mental Capacity (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Professor Simon Marvin is an internationally recognised academic with an excellent publication profile with expertise in the .
The feature is followed by a short reflection from Tom and Beth which also draws on an interdisciplinary workshop on Neurotechnically-Enabled Urbanism: What are the issues and challenges for urban life which was hosted by the Urban Institute and the ESRC funded project Experimenting with robotics as a new urban infrastructure led by PI Professor Aidan While as part of Sheffield Urbanism's Summer Programme.
If you've missed any of the previous episodes, please see the links below...
- - with Jenny Preece and SJ Cooper-Knock
- - a conversation with Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram
- - with Jayne Carrick and Krzysztof Nawratek
- - with Liz Sharp and Antonio Navas, feature with Malcolm Tait, Kiera Chapman and Hugh Ellis
- - with Miguel Kanai and Hannah Lewis, feature with David Jackman and Tom Goodfellow
- - with Madeleine Pill, feature with Adam Leaver and Rich Goulding
- - with Vanesa Castan Broto and David Dodman