Body and soul: Richard Seebohm on the human condition
‘Our emotions have no digital equivalent.’
One of my Quaker heroes is Geoffrey Hubbard, who, in 1981, forecast the future of computerisation and robotics. But there is one underlying issue that Hubbard didn’t pause to reflect on. Perhaps Hamlet expressed it best: ‘What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving, how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god…’
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