Digital Futures

Digital Health Equity seminar: Equitable Large Language Models (LLMs) for health: the role of patients and the public

13:00 - 14:00 9 September 2026
The next seminar in the University of Manchester Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 9th-Sep, 1-2pm via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/99298120163. Mel Ramasawmy (Queen Mary University…

NVIDIA Quantum Day: Accelerated Quantum Supercomputing with CUDA-Q

17 September 2026
Discover how to harness CUDA-Q and GPU acceleration for quantum computing, hybrid algorithms, and next-generation quantum hardware. *Please Note: This event is for The University of…

Fire and Ice: The Conception, Birth and Infancy of Cybernetics.

13:00 - 15:00 24 September 2026
Meat the Machine: or, the Hidden History of Cybernetics and the Possible Futures of Humans A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and…

Women’s Health Technology Summit 2026

12:00 - 17:00 1 October 2026
The Women’s Health Technology Summit 2026 will bring together leaders from healthcare, research, technology, investment, academia, policy, and industry to examine the persistent inequality…

Those Serendipitous Mavericks: The Ratio Club and early British Cybernetics

13:00 - 15:00 29 October 2026
A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and vibrant history of the radical science of cybernetics, and the potentially profound implications…

Ghost in the Machine: The Battle for the Human Mind

13:00 - 15:00 26 November 2026
Meat the Machine: or, the Hidden History of Cybernetics and the Possible Futures of Humans A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and…

The Spectre of Automation: Robots in the New Jerusalem

13:00 - 15:00 28 January 2027
Meat the Machine: or, the Hidden History of Cybernetics and the Possible Futures of Humans A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and…

“It’s alive!”: Prometheus, Frankenstein, and the Cyborgs

13:00 - 15:00 25 February 2027
Meat the Machine: or, the Hidden History of Cybernetics and the Possible Futures of Humans A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and…

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Intergalactic Network: The real origins of the Internet

13:00 - 15:00 18 March 2027
Meat the Machine: or, the Hidden History of Cybernetics and the Possible Futures of Humans A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and…

A Tale of Beer, Chile, and Syn: Cybernetics in the service of socialism

13:00 - 15:00 20 April 2027
Meat the Machine: or, the Hidden History of Cybernetics and the Possible Futures of Humans A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and…

Algorithms against Neurons: The great schism between AI and cybernetics

13:00 - 15:00 27 May 2027
Meat the Machine: or, the Hidden History of Cybernetics and the Possible Futures of Humans A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and…

Transcendence or Termination?: Cybernetics, transhumanism, and the future

13:00 - 15:00 24 June 2027
Meat the Machine: or, the Hidden History of Cybernetics and the Possible Futures of Humans A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and…

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