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Editorial

Challenging Times & Moral Issues

by Rick Lewis

“For the times they are a-changing.” Bob Dylan, 1963

Well, ain’t they always? Right now they are a changing in a whole collection of challenging ways all at once.

For decades, tech nerds hunched over their glowing screens in their foetid basement mancaves have talked of “The Singularity”. It is one of their chief myths. The theory goes thusly.

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