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THE photographer Simon Norfolk has travelled the world photographing supercomputers. His work is not an act of devotion or even admiration. “These computers are not amiable assistants, they are distant and sinister,” he says in his commentary to the series of pictures he calls The Supercomputers: “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that”.

Norfolk is interested in what it means to be human. He believes that supercomputers have already entered a realm beyond human ken. “The problem is not that these computers might one day resemble humans; it is that they already resemble gods,” he says. Part…