EDITORIAL: |
The party’s over Simon Ings & Sumit Paul-Choudhury |
FORWARD: |
From insight to naches (+) Samuel Arbesman |
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How clever must our machines get, before we take pride in them? |
SHORT STORY: |
Choosing faces (+) Lavie Tidhar |
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You are no longer a beautiful or unique snowflake |
INNER SPACE: |
Dancing on the ruins (+) Simon Ings |
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Strumming a lyre over the future’s burning remains |
SHORT STORY: |
Limited edition (+) Tim Maughan |
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Theft, threatening behaviour, criminal damage? There’s an app for that |
PRESENT TENSE: |
The singularity can be stopped (+) Justin Pickard |
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Machines are poised to make us all redundant - but only if we let them |
SHORT STORY: |
All your futures (+) David Gullen |
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They left a dying earth in search of a new home - but their children got there first |
PREDICTIVE TEXT: |
An end to sitting (+) Arc & Paul Graham Raven |
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An action hero for the digital age: Neal Stephenson talks to Arc |
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Scrapmetal (+) Nan Craig |
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They told Nia her patches were future-proof. New technologies - same old lies |
TOMORROW PROJECT: |
With great power Brian David Johnson |
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Conversations inspired by Arc’s winning short story |
PRIOR ART: |
Midnight at the singularity disco (+) Sumit Paul-Choudhury |
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Music expresses what is best in us - until it leaves us behind |
MATERIALS: |
Fun and games in the garden (+) Christina Agapakis |
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Biology is smelly, squishy and gross. Let’s build with it. |
ESSAY: |
The city through spectacles (+) David Binder |
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All the world’s a stage, if a new theatrical generation has its way |