The ubiquitous computer From HAL 9000 in Arthur C Clarke’s Space Odyssey science fiction saga to Eddie and Deep Thought from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, or ev... Read more
Image by Axel Bührmann via Flickr TIM NICHOLS measures fun. A slim, 32-year-old psychologist, he spends his days behind a one-way mirror at Microsoft’s video games research center here, watc... Read more
Though nearly every country in the world is ageing fast, Japan is at the front of the pack and in the next few decades will see its ratio of workers to retirees change from 7-1 to 2-1 – a sc... Read more