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Articles by John Gilbey
With the University of Rural England’s hopes of survival resting on a bailout from a disgruntled tech bro alumnus, John Gilbey’s seasonal tale sees its embattled vice-chancellor go back to the future in Silicon Valley
In John Gilbey’s seasonal tale, the sharks are circling the vice-chancellor of the University of Rural England. But the fishing village to which he flees is not as innocent as he depicted it in his doctoral thesis. And its power-brokers are every bit as terrifying as those on the Regional Economic Regeneration Committee
The University of Rural England’s wildly popular moggie mascot, Mr Tibbles, has disappeared and suspicion falls on the vice-chancellor. As the frenzy mounts, can our lovelorn hero save his reputation, his job, his relationship and perhaps even his mortal flesh in time for Christmas? John Gilbey tells the tale
In John Gilbey’s seasonal tale, life imitates on-screen romance when a film crew is duped into choosing the distinctly unphotogenic University of Rural England as the location for its next blockbuster
John Gilbey is intrigued and disturbed by an occasionally irreverent account of how environmental disaster haunts popular culture
John Gilbey is fascinated by a richly detailed account of attempts to reach the holy grail of technological innovation
Discovering unexpected oddities while wandering round a university library is one of academia’s purest pleasures, says John Gilbey
The combination of Brexit and the Covid pandemic has driven change throughout academia, even reaching the scholarly backwater that is the University of Rural England. But perhaps it doesn’t have to be that way, writes John Gilbey. Things could be better – or much, much worse…
John Gilbey is fascinated by an ambitious attempt to analyse and address the disastrous human impact on the biosphere
John Gilbey is impressed by a bold attempt to assess just where AI is likely to lead us
John Gilbey enjoys a quirky tour of the communications tool we seem unable to do without
John Gilbey assesses a sobering account of why the internet doesn’t work for radicals
How will the rise of artificial intelligence affect universities’ carbon-based employees? John Gilbey runs the algorithm
Our personal environment faces profound changes as a consequence of technology, says John Gilbey
After the Solstice Attack, the University of Rural England has become a bastion of hope and survival, writes John Gilbey. But how far can it push its role as the ultimate post-apocalyptic anchor institution?
A grand tour of digital processes culminates with cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin in particular
Driverless cars are limited in their understanding and inherit their coders’ biases, warns John Gilbey
John Gilbey on a welcome guide to the thorny legal and ethical issues of a new technological era
John Gilbey praises an entertaining text that draws on popular culture to explain the essentials of computer science to the general reader
Book of the week: Apps are taking us places, fast – but do we always want to go? John Gilbey considers the value of rapidly changing tech
Book of the week: sidelining its female workforce cost the UK primacy in a nascent IT industry, says John Gilbey
As we cannot cut the cords tethering us to tech, we must fully grasp the connection, says John Gilbey
John Gilbey on the USSR’s failed attempts to develop ‘Electronic Socialism’
New technology has changed how we approach the act of writing, finds John Gilbey
