Technology
Rage against the machine
Schools should be a safe space away from the ghoulish blue light
Ghosts at the feast
Christmas ghost stories are meditations on darkness at the darkest point of the year
A new democratic alliance
The world needs to rekindle its democratic alliances to counter China’s growing techno-authoritarian power
Novel weapons
Could we be unwittingly researching both sides of a hypersonic arms race?
Born digital
Graham Stewart talks to Alex Story and Robert Wigley about the dangers of our addiction to digital information
How Gen Z became Gen Me
How the dominance of social media and mobile technology is making today’s teenagers less empathetic and more narcissistic
Are timber skyscrapers the future?
Given the challenges that UK governments will face over the next decade, there’s every reason for us to embrace the timber age
The slab from the lab – is meat cultured from cells the future (or end) of farming?
The investor and author of Moo’s Law, Jim Mellon, talks to Graham Stewart about the coming agrarian revolution
Why conservatives shouldn’t migrate to Gab
If Gab’s ideal of freedom is defined by Christian Reconstructionists and fascist philosophers, then free speech will be the means, rather than the end, of the reconstruction of social media
The unsurprising rise of AI art
Whether we like it or not, the intrusion of AI into the domain of human creativity is going very quickly to become a fixture of our lives