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All I Know is What's on the Internet review: The shocks don't work

All I Know is What's on the Internet review: The shocks don't work

14 January 2019

How has our visual culture adapted to the digital age? All too well, according to this show at The Photographers' Gallery, London. Is the internet losing its ability to surprise?


Actors Nadi Kemp-Sayfi and Sam Redway

War With the Newts review – this is smart sci-fi theatre at its best

10 October 2018

A reimagining of a classic 1930s novel by Karel Capek cleverly immerses us in a terrifying future where a new intelligent species is cruelly exploited


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Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt review – a joyful peek under the hood

19 September 2018

Even when we fail spectacularly at them, computer games are crafted to be a medium of delights, as an exhibition at London's Victoria & Albert Museum reveals


Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt review – a joyful peek under the hood

Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt review – a joyful peek under the hood

14 September 2018

Even when we fail spectacularly at them, computer games are crafted to be a medium of delights, as an exhibition at London's Victoria & Albert Museum reveals


Crowds of people are laughing at science (but in a good way)

Crowds of people are laughing at science (but in a good way)

7 September 2018

Science-inflected comedy is everywhere – and if the performances at this year's Edinburgh Fringe are anything to go by, it's doing vital work


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A new book says the pace of genomic innovation is problematic

24 January 2018

In The Postgenomic Condition, Jenny Reardon lays bare what went wrong with the most promising medicine of the millennium – and greed is only part of her story


Time to fix an internet bust by surveillance capitalism's demand for data

Time to fix an internet bust by surveillance capitalism's demand for data

27 December 2017

The internet is broken by surveillance capitalism's endless hunger for our attention and data. We need networks that reflect radical, unfamiliar philosophies


bioinformation

Too much information? The data-driven future of health

18 October 2017

Ever more bioinformation is readily available through tracking devices and databases – but does it risk getting up too close and personal, asks a new book


Man on floor reading between the stacks of a library shelf

Arthur C. Clarke award makes science fiction a family affair

4 July 2017

The judges’ favourites reveal a growing appetite for science fiction which is also economic and political, says Lydia Nicholas


Robots in Into the Unknown exhibition

This science fiction trip is delightful, confusing – and risky

9 June 2017

Pinning down science fiction in a new exhibition may be a hopeless task. Just let Into the Unknown inspire you to boldly explore your own new frontiers


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