futurology
22/01/2024 - 16:48
Dystopian fiction can be vitally important. It can contain important warnings: raising alarms on social issues through extrapolating... →
27/12/2020 - 12:29
The nation-state will soon be irrelevant
Historically, we humans don’t like change. We like waking up in the morning and knowing that... →
10/02/2018 - 12:28
While currently confined to science fiction, the singularity no longer seems beyond the realm of possibility. From larger tech... →
09/04/2017 - 17:15
I. RUNNING AMOK
It was just a friendly little argument about the fate of humanity. Demis Hassabis, a leading creator of advanced... →
18/04/2015 - 14:03
We walk past a Kurzweil music synthesiser, a picture of the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, before arriving in his living room in... →
02/07/2013 - 19:58
To counter Franklin's rather nutty point about Brailsford in 1914 it is sufficient only to observe that between the publication of The... →