Future
04/05/2018 - 12:46
That was back in the early 1930s, when “computers” were usually teams of women who performed rote calculations. The idea that data could be... →
15/04/2018 - 15:47
A new book highlighting the global impact of Israeli innovation also comes at the perfect time. “Thou Shalt Innovate, How Israeli Ingenuity... →
09/04/2018 - 16:58
On the wall is a poster of Bertrand Russell with the quotation: ‘Most people would sooner die than think, and most of them do.’ There is a... →
05/04/2018 - 13:46
But they carry on clicking and sharing and posting, preferring speed and convenience above all else. Last year was Silicon Valley’s annus... →
09/01/2018 - 16:17
One of my first stops here was at a University of Las Vegas robotics lab. Scientists there were working on projects ranging from drones to... →
19/11/2017 - 17:25
Inequality goes back to the Stone Age. Thirty thousand years ago, bands of hunter-gatherers in Russia buried some members in sumptuous... →
16/09/2017 - 12:14
GENETIC MODIFICATION OF HUMANS
Debates among scientists started roaring last year over a new technology that lets us edit human DNA. It’... →
30/07/2017 - 10:55
Around the same time, the then president Barack Obama announced a ‘computer science for all’ programme for elementary and high schools in... →
26/05/2017 - 12:46
I spoke with Harari recently for my podcast, The Ezra Klein Show. To hear our whole conversation, subscribe on iTunes (or... →
02/02/2017 - 15:48
Louis Rosenberg thinks he has found a way to make us all a lot smarter. The secret to this superhuman intelligence? Bees. Rosenberg runs a... →
29/12/2016 - 18:07
The possibilities of interstellar warfare are of interest not only to science-fiction authors seeking new plotlines, but also to... →
19/12/2016 - 15:32
But perception can be deceptive, and memory can be unreliable; even this kind of direct knowledge is not certain. And there are kinds of... →