With the new Blade Runner TV series out this month, sci-fi columnist (and superfan) Emily H. Wilson rereads the source material, Philip K. Dick’s seminal novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Excerpt from New Scientist. Original publication ↗
Source: New Scientist
Tom Fecht's photo, titled Lucifer's Vortex and part of the touring Storm exhibition from the Prix Pictet award, shows light from plankton mixing with reflections of moonlight in a wave in Brittany
Eric C. So's new book The Collision argues that we are letting AI do our thinking for us, with dangerous consequences for our brains. Tom Knowles weighs up the evidence
This question was posed as part of New Scientist’s Last Word series, in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions. Here’s what our readers had to say
What would eradicating mosquitoes do to the ecosystem? And, if Einstein hadn't devised his theories, could AI do it now?