Impact of Science & Technology on Society

Your voice provides biometric data. How are marketers using it to manipulate you? [Dr. Turow ] is encouraging policymakers and the public to do som...

If you''ve ever wondered how much real science goes into movies like Gravity, novels like The Martian, and television shows like Doctor Who, this i...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Alarms are alarming. They wake us up, d...

The 20th century witnessed two digital revolutions. Computing power has revolutionized every industry, from finance to agriculture to pharmaceutica...

Do you have smartphone syndrome? This refreshingly honest how-to guide will help you find balance and build meaningful connections in a screen-obse...

New research and innovations in the field of science are leading to life-changing and world-altering discoveries like never before. What does the h...

Evolution helps us understand our own humble place in the rich tapestry of life. But what do we know about the theory of evolution itself? Based on...

Does neuroscience have anything to say about religious belief or the existence of God? Some have tried to answer this question, but, in doing so, m...

A must read Gordon Brown A truly excellent book Sir David King The three biggest challenges facing the world today, in A. C. Graylings view, are ...

Worth a read for anyone who cares about making change happen.Barack ObamaA powerful new blueprint for how governments and nonprofits can harness th...

The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a...

The search for life on Marsand the moral issues confronting us as we prepare to send humans thereDoes life exist on Mars? The question has captivat...

The classic case for why government must support sciencewith a new essay by physicist and former congressman Rush Holt on what democracy needs from...

In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and d...

In one hundred lean and incisive statements, Douglas Rushkoff argues that we are essentially social creatures and that we achieve our greatest aspi...

Why do people choose to play with ideas considered antiquated? Why do they elect to act in non-productive ways? Perhaps the question can be asked i...

Computer software and its structures, devices and processes are woven into our everyday life. Their significance is not just technical: the algorit...