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Imagine that, in 20 or 30 years, a company creates the first artificially intelligent humanoid robot. Let’s call her “Ava.” She looks like a person, talks like a person, interacts like a person. If you were to meet Ava, you…
Is there something unusual about the pace and nature of technological change today? Should we be more worried about the world we’re creating? Michael Bess is a historian of science at Vanderbilt University and the author of Our Grandchildren Redesigned:…
The commercial spaceflight firm SpaceX is planning a rocket launch early Thursday morning after high winds forced the company to scrap a liftoff scheduled for Wednesday. The recycled Falcon 9 rocket is expected to carry PAZ, an observation satellite financed…
For the first time ever, women in their 30s in the US are having more babies than women in their 20s, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s significant because older women can have…
“Enlightened through compassion, the innocent fool.” So sing the youths of Monsalvat, the mythical Spanish Gothic fortress that guards the Holy Grail in Wagner’s opera “Parsifal,” of the mysterious man who will arrive to save them from their impending doom.…
Photograph by Gary Moyes / BBC / Masterpiece “To Walk Invisible” Recently, in the midst of writer’s block, I did what I always do when marooned in the middle of a story: I sank into bed and surrendered to someone…
