S3 Appetiser - Keeping it Random

Alan Turin's 'automatic machine' remains the blueprint for nearly all of our modern computer systems. In an early paper however Turin wrote: 'of course another type of machine is possible. This is the Oracle Machine and I will not speak of that.' Our guest for this mini episode however, will.
James Bridle is the author of Ways of Being and an artist whose work deals with the ways in which the digital, networked world reaches into the physical, offline one. James shares their thoughts on why computers can't do random and what our computers of the future might look like. We also touch on the…