Batteries - more efficient, cheaper and powerful - will be the "master key" that unlocks a cleaner energy grid
Joe Pease's videos are ontological shocks - all the hidden processes of modern life brought to the surface
Hard work, happy accidents, the pleasures of ritual: why, in a digitally-saturated age, we still love “analogue” tech
“People used to be born into communities, then found their individuality. Today people are born individuals, then find their communities.” Here comes the Post-Individual
From a designer’s perspective, AI is like the new version of plastic - distorting everything, at great ecological cost
An “integral journalism” would expose people to more complex information, healthier discourse, and inspiration for transformation
Rob Hopkins’ Ministry of Imagination has produced a manifesto of what-if policies - from the most starry-eyed to the costed and practical
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The public needs input, and consensus, on how they should shape AI in their lives. Belgium’s Citizen Panel on AI promises much
We need to think of "technics", rather than technology, said Bernard Stiegler - showing how they harm or heal us as humans
Digitally divided in society, echo-located in a neighbourhood, sanctified on a mountain... Documentaries that make a world
The domestic robot gets closer with Figure 01, powered by Open AI. But does automated servitude degrade our humanity? Or liberate it?
With the latest and coming wave of neurotech devices, the truth is that your brain may need a lawyer
“We need a conception of the human-made world that acknowledges its continuities with this planet’s other systems”, says Tom Chatfield
WeRobotics and Flying Labs want to put African communities in charge of drones and the data they produce
“Less mechanisation in life! Resist the machine apocalypse!” We’re pretty techno-optimist here, but these are powerful voices against
Humans bossing humans around, non-player characters lost in routine, and Sora making anyone a movie maker. A/V for this virtual moment
How do you make sustainable travel super-attractive? You sculpt hydrogen refuelling stations, and redesign the classic train journey
"Trans people literally built the internet, as queer and trans people have been ardent technologists since the beginning"
"Tech for Today - and for Tomorrow" makes a resounding case that community tech can drive change in Britain
There's a tension in the impact of AI on Africa. Making Africans healthier, better educated and informed? Or is it the next colonisation?