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Computers and Warfare - Martyn Thomas CBE

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Channel: Gresham College · 2018 · Education

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0:00 // Introduction & Lecture Overview
1:24 // The Ghost of Old Hamlet: What Kind of Ghost?
2:48 // Catholic vs. Protestant Views of the Afterlife
4:12 // Macbeth and Banquo's Ghost
5:36 // Julius Caesar and Caesar's Ghost
7:00 // Richard III: Visited by All His Victims
8:24 // Witches and the Supernatural World
9:48 // Fairies and Spirits in A Midsummer Night's Dream
11:12 // Prospero's Spirits in The Tempest
12:36 // Ariel: What Kind of Being Is He?
14:00 // The Weird Sisters: Witchcraft and Jacobean Anxiety
15:24 // Ghosts, Justice, and the Question of Revenge
16:48 // What the Supernatural Reveals About Shakespeare's World
18:12 // Conclusion & Summary

Stuxnet, the attacks on the Ukrainian power grid, and autonomous armed guards are only the beginning. Computers are changing warfare profoundly because military strategy has always been geographically based but there are no borders in cyberspace. We shall investigate the implications for the future of international conflict and of national defence. If preparations for the next war have already started, can we tell who is winning?

The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/computers-and-warfare

This event was on Tue, 29 May 2018

A world-renowned expert in software engineering and cybersecurity, Martyn Thomas CBE was the first IT Livery Company Professor of Information Technology at Gresham College.

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