Beware of Geeks bearing gifts: from Antikythera to AI – tracking the labyrinthine path of technology’s progress

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Amazon: America and the world cannot stop falling under the company’s growing shadow

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The Language Machines : a deep look at GPT-3, an AI that has no understanding of what it’s saying.

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BOOK REVIEW: how civilization broke our hunter-gather brains and work created so much discontent

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Monopolies really know best: just ask Amazon

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“52 things I learned in 2021” (courtesy of Tom Whitwell)

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FRANCE: How can a country that hails Josephine Baker take the racist Zemmour seriously?

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VIDEO ESSAY: some thoughts on Hanukkah

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Our Age of Rona: it’s still wait-and-see time for many key characteristics of the Omicron variant

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How Munich’s museums are confronting their Nazi history

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