Specifically, the panel discuss how advances in neurotechnology - Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs) - are changing the way we think about urban infrastructures and human-technology relations in the city.
They discuss:
- How can we understand the complex and continuously changing relationship between cities and technology over the last few decades?
- What and where are the new frontiers of urban technology in light of neuro-technological advances, such as Brain Computer Interfaces?
- What are the legal and ethical implications for cities and residents of neurotechnological urbanism, and can science fiction prepare us for what’s to come?
Guests:
Dr Allan McCay is Co Director of The Sydney Institute of Criminology and an Academic Fellow at the University of Sydney Law School. His first coedited book is Free Will and the Law: New Perspectives (Routledge, 2019) and his second is Neurointerventions and the Law: Regulating Human Mental Capacity (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Professor Simon Marvin is an internationally recognised academic with an excellent publication profile with expertise in the changing relations between socio-technical networks and the urban and regional reconstructuring.
The feature is followed by a short reflection from Tom and Beth which also draws on an interdisciplinary workshop on Neurotechnically-Enabled Urbanism: What are the issues and challenges for urban life which was hosted by the Urban Institute and the ESRC funded project Experimenting with robotics as a new urban infrastructure led by PI Professor Aidan While as part of Sheffield Urbanism's Summer Programme.
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