Society

Ingenious librarians

A group of 1970s campus librarians foresaw our world of distributed knowledge and research, and designed search tools for it

Monica Westin

The haunted city

The city, for all its mechanical speed, artificial light and industrialisation, is the most uncanny of human habitats

Azania Imtiaz Khatri-Patel

Robogamis are the real heirs of terminators and transformers

Jamie Paik

Sure, it can backflip – but can a robot hold down a desk job?

Amy LaViers

Robot says: Whatever

What stands in the way of all-powerful AI isn’t a lack of smarts: it’s that computers can’t have needs, cravings or desires

Margaret Boden

Human as a process: What awaits us in the coming age of bio-enhancement?

3 minutes

Robot cognition requires machines that both think and feel

Luiz Pessoa

The tiny robot that could wriggle its way across the perilous terrain of the human body

3 minutes

Science has outgrown the human mind and its limited capacities

Ahmed Alkhateeb

Dance dance automation: music from the factory floor

8 minutes

The last day of hot metal press before computers come in at The New York Times

29 minutes

In proof we trust

Blockchain technology will revolutionise far more than money: it will change your life. Here’s how it actually works

Dominic Frisby

If we are what we do, how can we stay human in an era of automation?

7 minutes