A new breed of small but complex 'learning’ robots— working alone or in insect-like swarms—are set to revolutionize manufacturing and labourBy CHARLIE GILLIS8 min
Brain caps that let us speak via our thoughts, cochlear implants that bestow super hearing: the body of the future will transcend human limits. And it’s not far away.By ANNE KINGSTON8 min
BRIAN DAVID JOHNSON is Intel Corporation’s chief futurist, the man the computer-chipmaking giant entrusts with looking ahead 10 or 15 years and predicting how people will be interacting with its products. He is also someone who passionately argues the future is what we make it, and being pessimistic and fearful is more liable to make it unpleasant.
The war on Big Bird, Silvio Berlusconi discovers a woman can lie, and a female perspective on the oilsandsBy JAIME J. WEINMAN, ANNE KINGSTON, AARON WHERRY, MARTIN PATRIQUIN7 min
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