Technology

Polarised culture wars, the challenge of elder care, and childlike sexbots
QR codes in China, privacy, the manipulation of desire, and a neo-Benedictine Rule of Life
Trillions of data points, clickbait, an advertising arms race, and BF Skinner’s pigeons
Technicism, the Parable of the Talents, get-rich-quick schemes, and the wheat and the weeds
Bitcoin, warehouses of computers solving maths puzzles, the dot.com bubble, and FOMO
The Eliza effect, algorithms reading lung X-rays, the problem of other minds, and adventurers on Mars
A mucky business, the ultimate conspiracy theory, ‘showbiz for ugly people’, and and atomised individuals
The judgemental society, 3,000 offensive tweets a day, freedom from vs freedom to, and Elon Musk’s Twitter
I-Thou relationships, talking to stuffed animals, thanking Alexa, and Turing red flag laws
A stem cell ‘Mini Me’, CRISPR, Brave New World, and extending the 14-day limit