Technology

The untimely death of the landline

5 March 2022 9:00 am

The premature death of the home phone

The algorithm myth: why the bots won't take over

19 February 2022 9:00 am

The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer on how to stay ahead of the algorithms

The ghosts that could come back to haunt Blair

5 February 2022 9:00 am

I’m picturing Sir Tony Blair enjoying a fitting of his Garter robes after watching Boris Johnson stagger through PMQs. ‘I’m…

My Orwellian battle with Vodafone

29 January 2022 9:00 am

After launching an investigation into my missing phone, Vodafone informed me it could not deal with me any further until…

Will our future lives be like a video game?

22 January 2022 6:00 pm

A few years ago, the software company Owlchemy Labs released a computer game called Job Simulator. Its premise was simple.…

Why cash is still king to me

22 January 2022 9:00 am

In defence of hard cash

The tyranny of the smart phone

22 January 2022 9:00 am

‘Can I ask you why you don’t want a smart phone?’ said the chirpy manager, as I stood blinking in…

My strange encounter with foot fetishists

15 January 2022 9:00 am

My strange encounter with the foot fetishists

Marjorie Taylor Greene's Twitter ban is nothing to celebrate

7 January 2022 1:14 am

Marjorie Taylor Greene is nuttier than M&M World. Not your garden-variety conservative, or even a conservative at all, but a…

The hypocrisy of Elon Musk

5 January 2022 2:31 am

Tesla’s sleek, if expensive, electric cars are leading the battle against climate change. Its batteries are moving renewable energy into the…

Reality check: could our universe be a simulation?

18 December 2021 9:00 am

The philosopher David Chalmers on whether the universe is a simulation

Sense and sensibility: Steven Pinker and Rory Sutherland on reason vs instinct

18 December 2021 9:00 am

Steven Pinker and Rory Sutherland on reason vs instinct

Everyone should be sick in the street once

18 December 2021 9:00 am

I learned a great deal at university, about half of it from a man called Raymond Foulk. Ray was not…

A tale of bitter brotherly rivalry

13 November 2021 9:00 am

For early humans there was no distinction between spirit and matter. There was no idea of self; no barrier between…

Are we ready for the metaverse?

6 November 2021 9:00 am

Prepare for the ‘metaverse’

New tactics are needed for the wars of the future

30 October 2021 9:00 am

The strategic bankruptcy of the West has twice so far this century demanded that our brave soldiers risk their bodies…

The problem with online property searches

23 October 2021 9:00 am

In 1966, the legendary adman David Ogilvy set out to buy a home in France. He boarded a transatlantic liner…

Why is it so hard to live without a mobile phone?

23 October 2021 9:00 am

Why is it so hard to live without a mobile phone?

The case for road pricing

23 October 2021 9:00 am

Thornton Wilder remarked that there are individuals who fall in love with an idea long before its appointed rendezvous with…

The problem with ‘David’s law’

23 October 2021 9:00 am

Two members of parliament have been killed in the past five and a half years. This, one long-serving MP laments,…

Banning anonymity creates more problems than it solves

21 October 2021 8:45 pm

There are growing calls to end internet anonymity in the wake of Sir David Amess’s death. The Tory MP Mark…

What Prince William gets wrong about space travel

19 October 2021 10:15 pm

Time was when ‘to boldly go where no man has gone before’ was not just a line from Star Trek.…

E-everything is heading your way

9 October 2021 9:00 am

Trends in New York City tend to foretell trends in London, whose fashions in turn set the pace for smaller…

The forgotten Einstein: how John von Neumann shaped the modern world

9 October 2021 9:00 am

Why isn’t John von Neumann better known?

The stalemate election: can Germany move beyond Merkel?

25 September 2021 9:00 am

Germany needs to progress beyond Merkel – but will it?