Work
The Second Look ·
The human body is the wrong benchmark for machines
A humanoid robot ran 100 metres in 9.32 seconds in Beijing on Saturday. The number worth reading was ten centimetres: the length its builders added to its legs over the summer. We keep measuring machines against ourselves, and the measurement hides what they can already do that we cannot.
The Themes ·
A chronicle of the revolution in real time
An introduction: what the weekly covers, the discipline it follows, and why we think this era still has authors.