Technology
From the first use of tools, controlling of fire, inventing the wheel and using electricity, to manipulations of the genetic code and the development of robots – technologies change the ways in which humans live on planet Earth and beyond.
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The Loop
How Technology Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back
Hachette Book Group USA, 2022
SAM
One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build
Avid Reader Press, 2020
Too Smart
How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World
MIT Press, 2020
What Does the AI Revolution Mean for Our Future?
How will AI impact our immediate and near future? Can the technology be controlled, and does it have agency? Watch DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and Yuval Noah Harari debate these questions, with The Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton-Beddoes.
The Economist, 2023
Energy crisis: five questions that must be answered in 2023
Market turmoil and geopolitical realignment after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine put livelihoods and the green-energy transition at risk. Here’s how researchers can help overcome the threats.
Nature, 2022
Machines That Translate Wants into Actions
A new generation of brain-machine interface can deduce what a person wants
Scientific American, 2019