The dark side of innovation: From dynamite to climate change
27 November 2019
Cultural evolution defines us as humans, but its products kill as people weaponise consumer tech and climate change threatens Earth, argue two new books
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How Watch Dogs Legion and Cyberpunk 2077 probe our dystopian fears
19 June 2019
At last week’s games mecca, E3, titles like Watch Dogs Legion and Cyperpunk 2077 played on our uneasiness about tech, channelling the darkness of Netflix’s Black Mirror
A friendly introduction to AI proves oddly unnerving
4 July 2018
Statisticians Nick Polson and James Scott want us to use AI for good. But their new book AIQ struggles to show us how, says Julie Freeman
The clock-maker who helped fashion art from science
27 June 2018
Savvy, old-school patronage may be the only way scientifically complex, sophisticated artworks can be made now – to judge by Europe’s largest art fair
Rediscover the gift of reading: Best books to buy this holiday
29 November 2017
Frantic about how to please your loved ones this festive season? Take a deep breath and plunge into Â鶹´«Ã½'s present picks
War by any means: The story of DARPA
22 March 2017
With the nature of war changing fast, what goes on in the Pentagon’s most secretive research agency, asks the first insider to lift the lid in The Imagineers of War
When art and technology pull each other to bits
21 September 2016
The marriage between art and technology came apart at this year's Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria
Mall tales: an artist's take on modern retail psychology
5 August 2016
Shopping malls are hot property in the Arab Gulf states, but Sophia Al-Maria doesn't exactly warm to them in her new video installation
Sound artist Chris Watson listens to a city breathe
23 June 2016
Wildlife noises form part of an enthralling piece of sound art that reveals the secrets of an English city's green lung
How Astro Noise show interrogates the world of surveillance
1 March 2016
Art shows about surveillance are a dime a dozen in New York, but this exhibition by film-maker Laura Poitras goes for the jugular, finds Brendan Byrne
