Author: Adam Lee

The day is approaching when no human beings will have to work to supply the needs of life. We can liberate ourselves from lives of toil. But will we use the robot surplus wisely?

Religious apologists treat the decline of Christianity as a natural phenomenon, like weather. They don’t want to admit that their own choices are the cause.

Protein folding, one of the greatest unsolved problems of biology, is yielding to advances in artificial intelligence.

Technological advances have made it possible for computers to hold conversations, perform surgery, create art, and more. What room is left for humans?

Human ingenuity makes it possible to extract oil under extreme conditions in hellish climates… but there’s no longer any reason we have to.

A hundred years later, World War I still scars the land where it was fought. What unintentional memorials are we creating today for our descendants?

The attack on Salman Rushdie is the latest clash in the battle of the ages: peaceful speech versus those who want to control everyone’s thoughts with violence.

The Inflation Reduction Act is by far the biggest investment ever made in the future.

Belief in God isn’t a rigid beam, but a malleable ball of putty that fits whatever the opinion of the moment is.

Our ancestors are separated from us by unimaginable expanses—and yet, in a few special places, they seem almost close enough to touch.