Albert Yuan is a science reporter at San Lian Lifeweek, one of China’s leading news and lifestyle magazines, where this essay was originally published in Chinese. Let me begin with breakfast. You wake ...

Otto Scharmer is the author of “Theory U” (2016) and co-founder of the Presencing Institute and the MITx u-lab. He works with leaders in the United Nations and in public, private and civil society ...

Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist known for his work on quantum gravity, the foundation of quantum mechanics and the nature of space and time. A fierce debate is raging around the slippery ...

Philip Maughan is a writer and researcher based in London. The truth, however, is that these headlines grossly embellish AI’s abilities. If you read the BBC Future article closely, for example, you’ll ...

Conor Feehly is a science writer from New Zealand whose work explores the intersection of physics, biology and philosophy of mind. Nestled in a valley on the industrial outskirts of Wellington, New ...

Helle Malmvig is a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, specializing in the intersections of Middle East politics, art and culture. She is also a critically acclaimed ...

Robin Wordsworth is a professor in Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. His research focuses on the evolution and habitability of terrestrial-type planets. When the Hubble Space ...

Aryn Baker is a Rome-based foreign correspondent who has spent the past 25 years writing about the intersection of climate change, conflict, migration, science, culture and politics around the world.

Swami Sarvapriyananda is the minister and spiritual leader of the Vedanta Society of New York. Blaise Agüera y Arcas is a vice president and fellow at Google, where he is the chief technology officer ...

Dang Nguyen is a researcher of AI and Bellwether Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Information. They examine the informal infrastructures, moral frictions and aesthetic ...

Bentley Allan is an associate professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University and co-director of the Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab. These promising developments weren’t born just out of ...

James O’Sullivan lectures in the School of English and Digital Humanities at University College Cork, where his work explores the intersection of technology and culture. At first glance, the feed ...