This week, Donald Trump acknowledged that in addition to Vladimir Putin, there’s another great leader he admires.
- Edward Luce asks if America is turning into a game-show democracy.
- Rand Paul didn’t find a Libertarian nirvana in Silicon Valley.
- Elon Musk, who fears AI. wants it to be widespread.
- Foreign Affairs argues the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” may be fraught.
- In the early Digital Age, human middlemen might still be useful.
- 1 in 10 U.S. homes will own a robot by 2020. Everyone else: homeless.
- New technologies have made some professions more demanding.
- Info we share reveals more than we think once it’s crunched by algorithms.
- For now, the U.S. military wants humans and machines to work together.
- We can’t free ourselves of drudgery unless we rethink the work ethic.
- Marjorie Prime meditates on AI’s complicated impact on memory.
- Adrienne Lafrance examines the driverless-car competitors.
- A 1971 video recalls the Road Research Laboratory’s robocar.
- Positivists like Steven Pinker may be overlooking an explosive truth.
- Some employers are subsidizing genetic screening for workers.
- TV wants to collect your data to personalize ads.
- Tom Carson looks at the history of American TV families.
- Simon Winchester isn’t reading any stories about zombies.
- Dwight Garner is mostly sour on the Terry Southern letters collection.
- Old Print Articles: Jacques Inaudi was a lightning calculator (1901).
- A brief note from 1922 about insect head transplants.
- A brief note from 1899 about wedding crashers.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.