Areopagus Volume LI

Seven short lessons every someday.

Welcome one and all to the fifty first volume of the Areopagus. We begin not with poetry but a brief announcement. Big Think have recently published an article I wrote for them on why we are so bad at predicting the future and why we should be wary of those who seek to excite or frighten us about what Artifical Intelligence will or will not do. Here is a link to it. If you do read the article then feel free to let me know what you think - and whether you agree or disagree with my conclusions.

Otherwise, and moving on, I suppose the best place to start today's instalment is with a photograph sent to me by a reader called Maurice. He visited Greece this week and walked on the very Areopagus itself, that rocky outcrop in Athens from which this newsletter takes its name:

Suitably located, then, let the great adventure of another volume begin!