In 1967, Brown was home to exactly one computer. This mainframe machine — an IBM System/360 Model 67 — was “used by the entire campus,” said Tom Doeppner, associate professor and vice chair of the ...

More than 50 years before ChatGPT could tell you what to cook for dinner, a 1968 science fiction film was shaping how we think about machines that talk to us. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a Jupiter-bound ...

He conceived an early version of cyberspace and predicted the “technological singularity,” a tipping point at which machines would become smarter than humans. By Richard Sandomir Vernor Vinge, a ...

So, Microsoft’s been talking about quantum computing for a while now, and they’ve got this new thing called a topoconductor. It sounds pretty wild, like something out of science fiction, but they’re ...

The current cultural fascination and frustration with artificial intelligence is nothing new. As far back as the 1921 Czech play R.U.R. — the workers-rights story that first coined the term “robot” — ...

Arthur Goldstuck is the founder of World Wide Worx, the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI, and has had a remarkable impact on shaping South Africa’s digital economy through his research.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. As the recent Worldcon 2025 Convention here in Seattle ...

For the past decade, a group called the Future of Life Institute has been campaigning for human welfare in public conversations around nuclear weapons, climate change, artificial intelligence and ...

Tim Powers and Kevin J. Anderson opened a time capsule that had been sealed 25 years at the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Awards Gala. Tim Powers prediction from 1998 opened at 2023 Writers of ...

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