Редактирование: Tom Scott

[[File:Tom Scott avatar by Matt Gray.jpg|right|thumb|Wearing his distinctive red tshirt]]
'''Tom Scott''' is a British [[YouTube]]r who produces educational videos around futurist, geeky and computer related content. He could be considered a [[de facto transhumanist]].<ref>[https://twitter.com/tomscott/status/720368431682301954 Twitter:One day, a message like this will appear on neural implants and it’ll be terrifying.]</ref> He wears red all the time because reasons.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4SoSBo_nsI Why Does Tom Always Wear Red T-Shirts?]</ref>

Popular futurist videos include:

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAgp7nXdkLU Why Computers Suck At Translation] - discussing the precursors the [[chinese room]] problem
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers] - lays out a possible [[mind uploading]] scenario with huge [[oligarchic transhumanism|inequality]] of access to the technology
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcPqk-O-fD4 Danger: Humans] - describes the [[existential risk|dangers]] posed by humanity to hypothetical alien observers
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIuf1V1FhpY Oversight: Thank you for volunteering, citizen] - outlines a hypothetical crowdsourced private mass surveillance system
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kBlH-DQsEg 2030: Privacy's Dead. What happens next?] - discusses mass surveillance, changing attitudes to privacy and [[synthetic telepathy]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4GB_NDU43Q Single Point of Failure: The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot To Check Passwords] - talks about a scenario with a mass security from Google
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdxzvQG3aic The Bubble: imagine the web without trolls, or shocks, or spam] - provides a hypothetical critique of 'internet bubbles' and filtering
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcPhMqLPuvQ "Is This You?" - lifelogging, privacy and scandal by Tom Scott at Electromagnetic Field 2012] - [[life logging]], google glass predictions and future politics
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf6C-pZ3heY When Facebook Resurrected the Dead] - big data and [[consciousness simulation]] from [[Facebook]], something later explored in more depth in [[Black Mirror]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JlxuQ7tPgQ The Artificial Intelligence That Deleted A Century] - Artificial intelligence, [[copyright]] and censorship
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L1QIJ9PQ2M Stealing Our Friend's Brain Backup PRANK (GONE WRONG!!!) 🤯🤯🤯] Mind uploading

== External links ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBa659QWEk1AI4Tg--mrJ2A YouTube channel]
* [https://www.tomscott.com/ tomscott.com]
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