1. What technology takes from us – and how to take it back Composite: Artwork by Anais Mims and Guardian Design. Source Photographs by Getty Images Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the... Read more »
In the last 15 years, a linked series of unprecedented technologies have changed the experience of personhood across most of the world. It is estimated that nearly 70% of the human population... Read more »
Our partner podcast Novel Dialogue invites a novelist and a literary critic to talk about novels from every angle: how we read them, write them, publish them, and remember them. This season’s …... Read more »
Amidst the digital haze, discover the unsettling truth of your choices—are you truly free, or just a player in a grand illusion? Read more »
Date and Time April 4, 20248:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. ETApril 5, 20248:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. ET Location Virtual and in person at the Neuroscience Center Building (6001 Executive Boulevard Rockville, MD) Overview The Eunice Kennedy Shriver... Read more »
Contemporary developments in communications technologies have overturned key aspects of the global political system and transformed the media landscape. Yet interlocking technological, informational, and political revolutions have occurred many times in the... Read more »
Car companies have been experimenting with driverless cars for decades, but their presence on roads has exploded in recent years. It became increasingly common, beginning in the twenty-tens, to see robo-taxi prototypes... Read more »
November 29, 2023 • Institute Update On October 23, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) announced the creation of a new Division of Data Science and Technology (DST). DST will replace... Read more »