Technology and Culture fed in to each other this week on two fronts; the first being Google DeepMind’s AI technology beating human Grandmasters of the Game of Go, and the second being how a rally of organised violence was recently perpetrated in Melbourne’s CBD over the weekend to the horror of police and families attending the Labor Day long weekend Moomba festival as they came under attack by over 200 youths. Steve and Ben have a look at both of these stories and their cultural impact. They also take a look at the seemingly unlikely, but now unstoppable rise of Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for the 2016 US Presidential Election.

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