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| Ideas
Hippies, Digital Gods and imaginary futures
Since the Cold War, America has been in an ideological battle to own the future, argues London academic Richard Barbrook. Is this the key to understanding Donald Trump and his tech-bros?
June 06, 2025
Long Read
| Being Human, Ideas
Forged Parfait vs the farmers
In Singapore you can enjoy a delicious starter made from lab-cultivated quail cells. Is this the future of meat? And why might the people of Florida lose out?
March 26, 2025Adding purpose back into the universe
Modern physics rests on time being reversible (even though we know it isn’t). But convert time into two dimensions and everything starts making sense ...
March 13, 2025
| Ideas
Hands off our copyright ...
Why AI companies should not be allowed to ‘colonize’ human creativity
February 20, 2025
15 mins
| Ideas
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