The Irish Times

Could you learn to predict the future? – and why you might want to

We didn’t see online shopping or streaming services coming, what else are we failing to predict?

Thu Mar 07 2019 - 06:25

‘You could spend all your time steaming your vagina’

Barbara Ehrenreich seeks to undermine all the ways in which contemporary middle-class westerners try to control their lives and forestall their inevitable doom

Thu Apr 12 2018 - 05:00

Nanobots will live in our brains in the 2030s, says Google boss

Web Log: Engineering director Ray Kurzweil predicts what future holds for AI and humans

Thu Oct 19 2017 - 07:35

Who wants to live forever? Transhumanism’s promise of eternal life

Mark O’Connell has spent several years talking to people who want to live through robots and technology, and he admits it stems from his own obsession with death

Sat Mar 18 2017 - 05:00

Could robots go beyond taking our jobs to running our world?

Fear of superintelligent AI has prompted new guidelines that propose close regulation

Thu Mar 09 2017 - 04:44

We are scaring ourselves to death over terrorism

What comes through our screens does not necessarily represent reality

Fri Jul 29 2016 - 01:00

Una Mullally: Digital immortality takes the sting out of death

Our obsession with maintaining an online presence is now creeping into the afterlife

Mon Dec 28 2015 - 01:00

Booked: Change is the name of the game for companies that shape their future

Gamechangers – are you ready to change the world, by Peter Fisk. €29.99, 306pp

Mon May 04 2015 - 01:00

The man whose map is the future

Disruptive technology, logic shifts, crazy ideas: these are survival tools and moral compasses for Peter Diamandis

Mon Jul 07 2014 - 01:00

Janelle Monae makes an electric return

New album The Electric Lady marks the return to the limelight of the fabulous Janelle Monae. She reveals how her musical vision is powered by feminism, futurism, painting and the funk

Fri Aug 30 2013 - 00:00