Dr Kathleen Maitland suggests that the world today’s children inhabit is qualitatively different from the world of previous generations, where the interface between humans and computers has evolved to the point where current distinctions are more difficult to sustain. Moreover, they — and we observe and interact with evolving digital worlds run, not by humans, but by computers themselves.

Dr Maitland is a lecturer in the Department of Computing, Telecommunications and Networks at Birmingham City University. Her research interests are requirements engineering, information systems evolution, fuzzy logic and other non-classical logic systems, human-computer interaction and e-commerce.