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Jeanette Winterson

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“For being Absolutely. And I was interested that it was his colleague at Bletchley Park, Jack Good, who then moved out to the United States and did so partly because he was disgusted at the way the British government had treated Alan Turing. And it was Jack Good who came up with the phrase our final invention. He was the advisor to San Lee Krubrick in 2001 space Odyssey with Hal the Murderous Computer. And he always said, look, it's not a question of if we develop a superior artificial intelligence, it's when. And he called it the last invention. And that was in 1965. You know, that guy was really looking ahead. And now we're here.”
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“It did. Turing's a critical character. Turing is here Also, you know, very persecuted for being gay, just for being gay. Despite his incredibly heroic work that changed the face of the world, essentially.”
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“Paying attention because I'm very curious about the world and I don't want to get left behind. I mean, one of the worst things you can do, I think, is to be passive and say somebody else will work that out for me. And especially now, we need to be part of the crucial conversations. So for myself, for the last five years or so, I've just been reading things, whether it's been Ray Kurtzweil talking about the singularity over at MIT. I've been trying to understand what's going on scientifically in the world, looking at what Google, Amazon, Facebook are up to. And of course, it was anchored for me in something very particular in that, you know, after the Second World War, Alan Touring at Bletchley Park, all of that stuff, all that computing know-how, which was in its infancy, moved to the University of Manchester.”
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“That we're also ambitious. So from the beginning, I've wanted to look at how we understand gender. Understand identity, how we position ourselves as humans, both in the world and in the universe. And of course now, 35 years later, I'm interested in how those questions will change, will have to change because we're about to share the planet with self-created non-biological life forms. And that really questions everything to do with gender, with identity, with how we place ourselves in the world and the larger universe. So the questions remain the same because I think when you're interested in things, when you're driven by things, you go on stalking them from every angle all your life. But as you grow and as the world changes, then you get different intriguing answers to those questions and of course you get more questions, which is one of the things I love. I'm much more interested in more questions than I am in the answers.”
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“35 years I've been working now, and of course, when my first novel, Oranges are not the only fruit, came out in 1985, there weren't really many books with positive, gay characters in them. As I know.”
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