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Detroit is at once the American Dream and the American Nightmare. Built on automotive manufacturing, and turbo-charged by the construction[…]

In 1993, a US scientist named Vernor Vinge wrote an essay entitled “The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in[…]

For some, the annual “Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity” is a throwback to the “glory days” of advertising. Oceans[…]

Something weird happened on an otherwise ordinary Wednesday in July in New York City. A switch flicked. A baton was[…]

“There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear.” The lyrics to the 1967 Buffalo Springfield protest anthem popped[…]

There is an alien creature that has arrived in our midst, with habits that would be completely unrecognizable to previous[…]

Put your ear to the ground and you can hear the future. That’s because the advance party has already arrived[…]

One evening last week, a possible vision of the future of urban transportation pulled up outside a bar in the[…]

Many a giant creature has loomed over the streets of Manhattan, at least in celluloid form – most famously King[…]

Is there anything truly original in this world? The TED Radio Hour podcast on America’s NPR asked that question recently[…]