Riley Waggaman The algorithm demands more efficient coffee! Roscosmos, which is a black budget Masonic scam just like NASA (it’s just a joke, relax—OR IS IT?), recently crashed a...

Karen Hunt In the opening scene of the original Blade Runner film, Leon, a Nexus-6 replicant is given a “Voight-Kampff Test” to determine whether or not he is human....

Sylvia shawcross So I was on the phone to a government department and was speaking to the computer. Or rather the computer was speaking to me. Going on and...

TE Creus I’ve noticed that self-checkout is taking over more and more shops and supermarkets. They have existed for a while, of course, but more as an alternative to...

Todd Hayen I must be missing a chip in my brain or something. Why have I never been blown away by the advances in technology that attempt to replace...

When I was a young lad of 11, I was fascinated with computers, or what little there was of them at the time. It was about 1966, and I...

Yesterday evening the US union the Writers’ Guild of America went on strike. The most immediate impact of this is that all the late-night “comedy” talk shows – Colbert,...

VN Alexander I’ve never wanted to be able to control any of my devices with my thoughts.  I am perfectly happy to use a physical interface that I can...

Sylvia Shawcross Some things keep us up at night such as the horrifying thought that if they eliminate all this carbon stuff, 20,000 years from now they won’t be...

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...

Sylvia Shawcross Now I know I promised last time that I might tell you the tragic tale of the Luna moth during its larval development but it is such...

Following up on their conversation from a few days ago, Jesse Zurawell and Iain Davis reunite to continue their discussion of the rise global technocracy. You can listen to...

John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Audio Version New Feature! “The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem and very often makes the problem...

Binoy Kampmark The ghost of Edward Teller must have been doing the rounds between members of the National Commission on Artificial Intelligence. The father of the hydrogen bomb was...

Colin Todhunter Contingent on World Bank aid to be given to poorer countries in the wake of coronavirus lockdowns, agrifood conglomerates will aim to further expand their influence. These...

John Steppling If you want to deprive citizens of freedom of movement, freedom of assembly and the right to family life, there should be written reasons. They ask the...

Binoy Kampmark “The founder of Netscape said software is going to eat the world.” Tristan Harris, Centre for Humane Technology, June 25 2019 Monsters and titans share the stage...