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We Asked an Expert: How Are Regular People Being Spied On?
From face scans, phones, and fingerprints to bulk data collection, here’s how modern surveillance is reshaping (and watching) your life.
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Picture: Rick Kosick Is Your Job Safe From AI? We Asked an Expert
In short, it’s probably not. But not in the way that you think.
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Photo: Bettmann (via Getty Images) How Does the British Class System Work Today? We Asked an Expert
It’s no longer a simple case of proles vs. toffs—so what are you, a ‘PMC,’ a parasite, a downwardly mobile graduate, or a neo-feudal serflord?
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Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images We Asked an Expert: Are We Really Going to Colonize Mars?
The definitive lowdown on whether we can get there, whether we can stay there—and if either would actually be worth it.
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Photos: Yushy Pachnanda Chit Chat With the Nightmare Destroyer
As a ‘global resilience guru,’ Vinay Gupta’s job is to stop the future destroying us and us destroying the future. It gets harder every day.
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Photo: Andy Soloman / UCG / Universal Images Group via Getty Images We Asked an Expert: Will Bird Flu Be the Next Pandemic?
We forced ourselves to confront our nightmares and called up a guy who’s been thinking about this stuff for 20 years.
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Photo: © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images The Man Who Wants to Save the Planet by Nuking the Earth’s Crust
Apparently recycling isn’t going to cut it any more.
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Vinay Gupta: "People are too stupid to understand they're being handed a solution" Vinay Gupta Explains How to Stop the Future from Destroying Us
Nuclear war. Resource wars. Climate wars. AI wars. Wars in outer space. We’ve got our hands full. But maybe here’s a way through it.