Cynicism is a quality taken almost for granted in tech journalism, and certainly we are as guilty as the next publication. But both the risk and the promise of technology are real, and a new ...

The ways we talk about the future have been decidedly...darker over the past half century, a hard turn from the sunny optimism that informed most visions of the world to come for decades before that.

Bestseller Harari (Homo Deus) offers an ambitious but muddled meditation on the past and future of information technology. Positing all human history as a history of information—and defining ...