…years. Honda’s near-life-size Asimo and the web-based news reader Ananova got a lot of media attention. Hanson Robotics’ Sophia even received Saudi Arabian citizenship. But they have little commercial future….
…Gates really a generous person? That seems like an absurd question. What more could anyone ask of him? However, virtues such as generosity are complicated. They involve more than just…
…of empathy To find out what was missing from the dominant theory of altruism, I teamed up with Joshua Plotkin, a theoretical biologist at the University of Pennsylvania, and Alex…
…from now—by the time my children are my age—performance-enhancing supersuits will be as common and mundane in society as smartphones are today. Perhaps people might even forget the amazing physical…
…off as cold-hearted. Where I think his biggest mistake was, though, was in separating emotion and data. For any kind of solution, we need both. Fear and anger are what…