Time to re-examine an old debate?
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The overwhelming impression I get from the personal stories that accompany Liz Crow's 'Figures' is the shocking lack of humanity, the lack of compassion for vulnerable people. Some years ago there was a lot of debate about the danger of losing our human values to soulless computers. If ever this was a political concern it has been forgotten or ignored. People's lives are being reduced to tick-forms that can be processed by computers; empathy, kindness and...