There’s a human, crouched at the entrance to a cave, staring in awe at flashes of lightning. The human doesn’t understand what the flashes are, can’t even begin to comprehend things like electrons or particles. He doesn’t have the logic, the knowledge, to make sense...
Look into a chimp’s eyes and it’s almost like looking in a mirror. You can see the awareness, the almost-humanness, gazing right back at you. You might even get the uncanny feeling that, with a couple of evolutionary sidesteps, we’d be sitting in a very different spot...
Making a good trade means giving up one thing to get something better. Life skills are no different, and for the most part we’ve made some solid trades. A lot of them have been thanks to new technology. Not as many of us can saddle a horse, do mental math, or hunt our...
Trigger thumb. Text claw. Tech neck. Those names might sound straight out of science fiction but the ailments are very real, and odds are good that you’ve experienced at least one of them. They’re repetitive stress injuries that come from overuse of things like...
I was recently debating the idea that artificial intelligence will replace humans, and heard what seemed like a solid point against it: AI won’t replace humans for the simple reason that it can’t come up with anything original. Everything AI creates is simply a...
We’re spoiled for choice when it comes to entertainment these days. Whether you’re commuting to work or chilling on the sofa, there’s no end of movies and TV shows to pick from—everything from Love Island to Animal Control. To some, it’s one more sign of our...
