Technology is probably changing us for the worse—or so we …
May 15, 2024 · A curious fact. Here at MIT Technology Review, writers have grappled with the effects, real or imagined, of tech on the human mind for nearly a hundred years.In our March 1931 issue, in his essay ...
Super-efficient solar cells: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024
Jan 8, 2024 · But perovskites have stumbled when it comes to actual deployment. Silicon solar cells can last for decades. Few perovskite tandem panels have even been tested outside. The electrochemical makeup ...
Mass-market military drones have changed the way wars are fought
Jan 30, 2023 · Explosions in Armenia, broadcast on YouTube in 2020, revealed this new shape of war to the world. There, in a blue-tinted video, a radar dish spins underneath cyan crosshairs until it erupts into ...
Here’s how people are actually using AI | MIT Technology Review
Aug 12, 2024 · The idea that we’ll form bonds with AI companions is no longer just hypothetical. Chatbots with even more emotive voices, such as OpenAI’s GPT-4o, are likely to reel us in even deeper.During ...
Would you really age more slowly on a spaceship at close to light …
Dec 7, 2019 · Time dilation is a concept that pops up in lots of sci-fi, including Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, where one character ages only eight years in space while 50 years pass on Earth.This is ...
OpenAI’s chief scientist thinks humans could one day merge with ...
Oct 26, 2023 · A lot of what Sutskever says is wild. But not nearly as wild as it would have sounded just one or two years ago. As he tells me himself, ChatGPT has already rewritten a lot of people’s ...
What’s next for drones | MIT Technology Review
Aug 16, 2024 · Police drone fleets. Today more than 1,500 US police departments have drone programs, according to tracking conducted by the Atlas of Surveillance. Trained police pilots use drones for search and ...
The Impact of the Internet on Society: A Global Perspective
Sep 8, 2014 · The Internet is the decisive technology of the Information Age, and with the explosion of wireless communication in the early twenty-first century, we can say that humankind is now almost entirely ...
AI for everything: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024
Jan 8, 2024 · When OpenAI launched a free web app called ChatGPT in November 2022, nobody knew what was coming.But that low-key release changed everything. By January, ChatGPT had become the fastest-growing web ...
Explainer: What is a blockchain? | MIT Technology Review
Apr 23, 2018 · What is it? A public1, permanent2, append-only3 distributed4 ledger5. What’s that? A mathematical structure for storing data in a way that is nearly impossible to fake. It can be used for all ...