And, at last, the final chapter in the sprawling epic that was this year’s Stanton Lectures. That infernal machine the “Owl” seems to me to have done an especially bad job of separating voices from the ambient sound in the lecture theatre, but that's what makes technological progress so exciting: it’s as likely to make things worse as it is to make them better.
In fact, the audio in the live recording is so bad in this case that I have recorded an alternative version, audio only, which I attach here. If you want to follow the lecture easily, it might be better simply to listen to this recording. If you then want to try to listen in on the final question and answer session of the lectures, you can start the original video at about the 47-minute mark and crank up the volume.
In time, the lectures will be published, in considerably longer forms than the versions delivered live.
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