Tech executives are not generally known for their modest ambitions. Google’s Sergey Brin, for instance, has expressed this vision for his company: “We want Google to be the third half of your brain.” ...

Jon Stewart thinks New York Times polling guru Nate Silver is a lot like a fried chicken sandwich. "The Daily Show" host interviewed Silver Wednesday night, a day after his algorithm for forecasting ...

Helena Bassil-Mozorow, Lecturer in Media and Journalism, Glasgow Caledonian University Before the Industrial Revolution and the first sci-fi narrative (Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, 200 years old this ...

In my teenage years, I was a baseball-career-pursuing, video-game-playing, city-dwelling, six-foot-tall (even taller in my mind) consumer of the world around me. That world was the South Side of ...

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Do we have free will, or are we controlled by a higher power? The capacity to act and determine one’s own actions in an increasingly technologised world is the most prominent theme in the latest ...