Human behavior is where de Meuron locates the conflicting promises of technology.
This conflict – between consumers of technology and the geeks who pull us forward into uncharted sociocultural territory – is starting to become more pointed.
But what's also happening in Ex Machina, and also in Humans and Mr Robot, is that the conflict with and negotiation of technology that Mendelsohn discusses is legitimately changing the way we comprehend what it means to be human.
The rise in the number of the old (and, according to this report, the "oldest old," classified as the over-80s) is a massive human success story: life expectancy increases because of better education, greater wealth, lower infant mortality, better healthcare, less disease, the reduction of armed conflict, and the development of technology and its application in pursuit of good.
Close to the Afghan border and far beyond the reach of aid groups and governments, they have long been deprived of technology, ravaged by conflict, and devastated by earthquakes and floods.
In a program note, Prins reported that he had been pondering intersections of technology and global conflict: American soldiers in Iraq revving themselves up with video games, Arab Spring insurgents communicating via Facebook, drones operated by remote control.
Concorde's technical leap forward boosted the public's understanding of conflicts between technology and the environment as well as awareness of the complex decision analysis processes that surround such conflicts.
A GI described the My Lai massacre in Vietnam as being like "scratching an itch...it's going to drive you mad unless you do it".Mr Holmes makes a convincing case that the human being remains the central weapon of military conflict, technology notwithstanding.
Over the past few months, violence has once again scarred Israel and the Palestinian Territories, yet despite the violence and the losses on both sides of the conflict, technology companies in the region are flourishing.
