Technology enters everyday life

Society.

How emerging technologies change trust, access and the ways we live.

These school buses run. Their grid promise still has to prove itself.

A Brooklyn pilot has ten electric buses and modular charging. Sending power back to the grid is the next test, not an achieved result.

Energy 30 Sep 2026 3 min read

DeepMind wants to shape the world after AGI

The DeepMind Institute puts work, ownership and public agency on its agenda. Its economic scenarios are proposals—not forecasts—and its policy-rating panel is simulated.

AI 16 Sep 2026 3 min read

Robotics

Musk Took Away the Steering Wheel. Now Comes the Trust Test.

Two seats. No steering wheel. As Cybercab reaches paying passengers, Elon Musk’s boldest design choice puts the entire service on trial.

Robotics 8 Sep 2026 4 min read

Biotech

Brain-Computer Interfaces Are Becoming a Human Interface Problem

Brain-computer interfaces are no longer only a lab miracle. They are becoming a new human interface layer, and that changes the stakes.

Biotech 15 May 2026 6 min read

Biotech

IVF Is Becoming More Automated. The Hard Question Is What Reproduction Becomes Next.

IVF is becoming more automated and data-driven, but the future of fertility will be shaped as much by access, ethics, and trust as by lab performance.

Biotech 13 May 2026 7 min read

AI in Scientific Literature: When Research Trust Becomes the Real Bottleneck

As AI enters papers, peer review, and grant workflows, scientific trust itself is becoming infrastructure under stress.

AI 9 May 2026 5 min read

Longevity

Longevity Will Not Break the Planet by Itself. Frailty, Emissions, and Inequality Might.

Longevity does not automatically create planetary collapse. The real burden depends on whether extra years are healthy or dependent, low-carbon or resource-heavy, shared or stratified.

Longevity 9 Jan 2026 5 min read

Deepfakes and Democracy: The Real Crisis Is That Proof Itself Is Getting Weaker

The deepest danger of deepfakes is not deception alone. It is the erosion of proof, provenance, and shared confidence in what actually happened.

AI 10 Jul 2025 5 min read

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Society.

These school buses run. Their grid promise still has to prove itself.

DeepMind wants to shape the world after AGI

Musk Took Away the Steering Wheel. Now Comes the Trust Test.

Brain-Computer Interfaces Are Becoming a Human Interface Problem

IVF Is Becoming More Automated. The Hard Question Is What Reproduction Becomes Next.

AI in Scientific Literature: When Research Trust Becomes the Real Bottleneck

Longevity Will Not Break the Planet by Itself. Frailty, Emissions, and Inequality Might.

Deepfakes and Democracy: The Real Crisis Is That Proof Itself Is Getting Weaker

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