In the mid-1960s, the mathematician and Bletchley Park cryptographer I. J. Good proposed a thought experiment that has since become the secular gospel of Silicon Valley. If we were to build an ...

As we look back on human history, we can analyze certain moments and periods that have shaped how humanity operates today. Various inventions in particular have allowed the human race to move forward ...

(via Kurzgesagt) Humans rule Earth without competition. But we are about to create something that may change that: our last invention, the most powerful tool, weapon, or maybe even entity: Artificial ...

Humans have created countless inventions that shape our lives in amazing ways. Some are practical, some are revolutionary, and some are simply fascinating. But if aliens suddenly appeared, which ...