by Vinoth Ramachandra | Nov 15, 2021 | Opinion
What has artificial/machine intelligence (AI) to do with environmental destruction and global warming? What goes into the making of such systems? The language of “cloud computing,” “virtual reality” and “cyberspace” has inured us into thinking that the web and AI...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Aug 18, 2021 | Opinion
Israel is the last remaining European colonial power, which is why its repressive actions are not treated by Western governments and mass media in the same way as that of, say, China or Iran. And every act of violence by Hamas or individual Palestinians is exploited...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Jan 15, 2020 | Opinion
For many peoples around the world – in countries as diverse as Britain, India and Sri Lanka – the political landscape for the new decade is bleak. Racist nationalisms, right-wing economic fundamentalism, outdated left-wing rhetoric and the corruption of public media...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Sep 16, 2019 | Opinion
My admiration for Bernie Sanders was badly dented recently by his faux pas: calling for population control by the world’s poor as a way of curbing climate change. No doubt the poor need better health education and access to reliable contraceptives, but not because in...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | May 8, 2018 | Opinion
Racism and sexism are increasingly, and belatedly, being identified as big issues at North American, Western European and Australian universities and are not merely “developing country” phenomena. See, for instance, the recent report from a British task...
