In a few key areas, humans will be more essential than ever. Credit...Illustration by Stephan Dybus Supported by By Robert Capps Robert Capps is the former editorial director of Wired. He frequently ...

Technologies such as electricity, semiconductors, and the internet have been transformative, reshaping economic activity and dramatically increasing living standards throughout the world. In some ...

A test of the app Dia illustrates that the humble web browser may be the path to making artificial intelligence more natural to use. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer ...

Too much of today’s conversation about A.I. is stuck in the wrong frame. While pundits debate whether robots will steal jobs, the real question is much simpler: Can we prepare workers fast enough, or ...

In this year’s Biennale Architettura, architecture isn’t a form—it’s a feedback loop. Photo by Andrea Avezzù, Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia In the lagoon of Venice, where time often feels suspended ...

You’re reading Infinite Scroll, Kyle Chayka’s weekly column on how technology shapes culture. The “lumpenproletariat,” according to “The Communist Manifesto,” is “the social scum, that passively ...