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Great to see the Industrial Strategy Council coming to Manchester. After their regular meeting hosted by The University of Manchester, they visited The University of Manchester Graphene at the GEIC, then the impressive Kraken Technology facility on Sister (pictured)

Ashamed to say I'd never read "In Parenthesis", by David Jones, before now (having inherited it from my late father's library) Such a powerful and moving piece of writing.

What will the ultimate economic impact of AI be? Still, I think, subject to radical uncertainty - in a blogpost I sketch three divergent scenarios, from "Intelligence Explosion" to "Crash and Burn". Not predictions, but reminders that future remains open. softmachines.org/wordpress/?p=3…

A fantastic blog post on the limits we're approaching on computing power. As Richard says, we've so far found lots of clever ways to keep getting more computing done with greatly reduced "free" wins from miniaturisation (electrons are stubbornly resistant to being shrunk).

Good to see govt announcement of £4.8m to support collaboration between Manchester and Cambridge. Manchester has much to learn from Cambridge's remarkable deeptech innovation system, while Manchester has the capacity to grow new businesses to scale cam.ac.uk/news/greater-m…