New tech spawns brand-new anxieties, says scientist and theorist Grady Booch, but we don't have to hesitate an all-powerful, unfeeling AI. Booch allays our worst (sci-fi induced) fears about superintelligent computers by discussing how we'll […]
Believe you're good at thinking statistics? Think once again. Whether we consider ourselves math people or not, our ability to understand and deal with numbers is terribly restricted, states information visualization specialist Alan Smith. In […]
Sarah Parcak uses satellites orbiting hundreds of miles above Earth to reveal covert ancient treasures buried underneath our feet. There's a lot to find; in the Egyptian Delta alone, Parcak estimates we have actually excavated […]
"The real path of a raindrop as it goes down the valley is unpredictable, however the general direction is unavoidable," says digital visionary Kevin Kelly– and technology is much the same, owned by patterns that […]
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